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Ja­maica’s gov­ern­ment says it is seek­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tion from the Unit­ed States over in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia re­ports that five mi­grants—in­clud­ing a Ja­maican na­tion­al—had been de­port­ed to the African coun­try of Eswa­ti­ni, ear­li­er this week.

In con­firm­ing the de­por­ta­tion, the US De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty de­scribed those sent to the African coun­try as “bar­bar­ic” crim­i­nals.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary, Tri­cia McLaugh­lin, said the five men sent to Eswa­ti­ni are cit­i­zens of Viet­nam, Ja­maica, Cu­ba, Yemen and Laos, and that they had ar­rived on a plane with­out pro­vid­ing fur­ther de­tails.