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How a tiny African absolute monarchy can play a ‘vital role’ in US national security: expert
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As the Trump administration has carried out its crackdown on illegal immigration, Americans have begun to see little-known countries like the African absolute monarchy of Eswatini in headlines increasingly often. Though obscure, these tiny countries, including Eswatini, can play a «vital role» in U.S. national security, according to a border and immigration expert.
With over 515,000 total deportations since inauguration day and 600,000 expected by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, the administration is on track to blow past the record number of deportations in a single year.
Even with these large numbers, the administration has been hit with court rulings that have slowed down its deportations. In many instances, such as in the case of alleged MS-13 gang member and Salvadoran illegal Kilmar Abrego Garcia, illegal immigrants can further delay their deportation by arguing that returning to their home country poses a risk to their safety or well-being.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Simon Hankinson, a border and immigration senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explained that this is where third-party countries come into play.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year, and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, arrive for a check-in at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025 (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He said the ability to still deport illegal aliens who claim risk of injury or torture in their home country denies them an effective «veto» on deportation. Hankinson said that while U.S. immigration law allows for these third-party deportee countries, some countries in Europe cannot do the same, with disastrous results.
«With a good lawyer and a lot of BS, even the worst of the worst are able to remain in European countries where some of them kill people, rape people, do horrible things,» he explained. «So, the United States does not want to be in that position.»
«Our law allows us, if we can’t send someone back to their home country, we can send them back to a country in which they resided for some time, or in which have gotten protection before or in a pinch to another country that will accept them and will not torture them or otherwise abuse them,» he said.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt released this image, writing on X that «deportation flights have begun» early on this year. (White House)
In the U.S., however, illegal immigrants can continue arguing that they face torture or harm in third-party countries that the government proposes deporting them to.
«If you look at someone like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his home country is El Salvador. That’s where he’s from. He was ordered, deported, given a final order of removal some years ago, but the judge said you can’t send him back … to El Salvador. But that was the one exception. He could have been sent anywhere else in the world. And so ever since then, the government has been trying to send him to other countries that will accept him. And in each case, I believe it’s 22 countries now, he’s claimed that he’s under threat of torture or abuse if he goes to those countries,» explained Hankinson.
Then there are recalcitrant countries that refuse to take their nationals back, such as how China, Russia and India have done in the past.
As a result, Hankinson said the Trump administration has sought out new countries to partner with to send deportees to.
«We’re the United States, we’ve got leverage, we have carrots and sticks to try to get countries to take their people back,» said Hankinson, noting that that these third-party country agreements can serve as one of those «sticks.»
Thus far, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of illegal aliens to third-party countries including El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Rwanda, South Sudan and Eswatini.
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King Mswati III of Eswatini appears in Pretoria, South Africa, May 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
On Sept. 5, the Department of Homeland Security sent Abrego Garcia’s lawyers a notice that in light of his fears of persecution in 22 other countries, he would be deported to Eswatini.
«That claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed (through your attorneys) that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries,» the DHS notice read. «Nonetheless, we hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa.»
Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a tiny landlocked country largely surrounded by South Africa. It has a population of approximately 1.2 million people who are ruled over by the last absolute monarch in Africa, King Mswati III.
Hankinson said that countries such as Eswatini can benefit from these mutually beneficial deals. While the U.S. rids itself of some of the excess illegal immigrants in the country while the third-party countries gain America’s good will, which can result in increased trade or assistance.
Though the numbers being sent to these third-party countries are small relative to the numbers being sent back to their home countries, Hankinson said he thinks these operations can be scaled up.
«I would think that the Trump administration would want to have as many of these deals as possible. So, that when you get a really lawyered up dude like Kilmar, no matter how many times he claims that he can’t go to country A, B or C, out of the 195 countries in the world, eventually he’s going to run out, and we’re going to be able to send him somewhere,» he said.
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In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, guards escort the inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Trump’s administration deported 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organizations ‘Tren De Aragua’ and Mara Salvatrucha to CECOT. (Salvadoran Government via Getty Images)
Hankinson said that this ability is «vital» to national security.
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«If an alien has a veto on being sent home, then it’s a one-way street. It’s just a ratchet and never goes back down again,» he said.
«There are a lot of people who were let in under the Biden administration, thousands of people, who have criminal records back home that we know nothing about, and they’re sooner or later going to victimize American citizens,» he went on. «The power of these agreements is that they make everyone understand that one way or another, if you have to leave, we’re going to find someone to take you.»
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Trump admin announces big step toward ‘energy dominance’ with massive Alaska LNG project alliance
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FIRST ON FOX: An expansive liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Arctic took a big step forward this week while officials at the Energy and Interior Departments heralded it as key to President Donald Trump’s «American energy dominance» agenda.
Alaska LNG, a branch of the New York City and Anchorage-based Glenfarne energy company, and energy technology giant BakerHughes announced an alliance that will bring to reality and accelerate plans for a nearly 1,000-mile, 42-inch LNG pipeline down the middle of the Last Frontier, and a corresponding terminal on the Kenai peninsula.
The 807-mile pipeline is projected to begin near Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean and run down to Nikiski – a village halfway between Anchorage and Homer.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the agreement, with Glenfarne CEO Brendan Duval saying that BakerHughes’ partnership on the project is a big deal due to the company’s expertise in LNG compression technology.
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Duval said the deal reflects an increased momentum toward the mega-project’s future realization and praised the project’s ability to attract «global partners [in order] to achieve national and state energy objectives.»
«Alaska LNG has the potential to be one of the most significant energy infrastructure projects in our nation’s history,» Wright said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«Today’s investment announcement is an important step forward for the project, prosperity in Alaska, and the energy security of America and our allies. The Trump administration remains committed to unleashing Alaska’s energy potential, including by supporting Alaska LNG.»
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum added that U.S. LNG is «not just an energy source [but] a strategic asset that powers our economy.»
Burgum, who chairs the National Energy Dominance Council, added that Glenfarne and BakerHughes working together will undoubtedly bear fruit in terms of new energy infrastructure that will create long-term affordable power for Americans that is based in America.
BakerHughes chairman Lorenzo Simonelli said in a statement that natural gas provides secure and reliable energy at an affordable rate to consumers. Simonelli also touted its lower carbon output than other fuels.
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According to reports, the project will include a carbon-capture plant on Alaska’s remote North Slope that will have the capacity to remove seven million tons of carbon dioxide from the project annually.
Alaska’s energy potential has been repeatedly touted by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who previously told Fox News Digital he is interested in an all-of-the-above approach devoid of politics that instead focuses on what will work and what will keep energy jobs in Alaska and the U.S. writ large versus overseas.
Dunleavy and Alaska officials battled the Biden administration over what they called intentional roadblocks against natural resources exploration in places like Ambler and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Section 1002; commonly dubbed ANWR.
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Outside the Last Frontier’s ubiquitous natural gas and oil prowess, Dunleavy previously told Fox News Digital he would also be open to exploring the power-generating potential of tides in Cook Inlet – said to be the second-strongest lunar-powered ebb and flow in the world.
«That basin in Cook Inlet is the most energy-rich basin on the planet: onshore wind, offshore wind, coalfields, oil, gas, tidal, geothermal — all right there,» he said, noting a separate wind farm on Anchorage’s Fire Island is easily visible from planes taking off at Ted Stevens International Airport.
He said, however, the major issue surrounding any green project is energy-storage capability, pointing to Germany as an example of where that problem has come up.
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«You have to have something; a baseline power, which should be gas.»
«What people need to know is that Alaska’s got this enormous renewable potential that we’re going to capitalize on – but you also have to be able to pay for the capital projects in renewables, such as hydro, solar, wind, and the storage — whether that’s going to be pumped-hydro up here or some other way to store the energy — but you need to have oil and gas to help pay for that,» Dunleavy said.
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Revelaron mails en los que Jeffrey Epstein afirma que Trump pasaba horas en su casa con una de las víctimas
Los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes publicaron correos electrónicos en los que Jeffrey Epstein asegura que Donald Trump pasaba horas en su casa con una de sus víctimas.
Los mails expuestos este mismo miércoles también sugerían que Epstein sabía que el presidente de Estados Unidos sabía más sobre los abusos de lo que reconoció públicamente.
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Desde el inicio del caso Epstein, Trump negó cualquier participación o conocimiento de la operación de tráfico sexual. El líder de la Casa Blanca afirmó hace tiempo que había sido amigo de él, pero que se habían distanciado.
Sin embargo, los demócratas del Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes dijeron que los correos electrónicos planteaban nuevos interrogantes sobre la verdadera relación entre ambos.
En uno de los mensajes divulgados este miércoles, Epstein afirmó rotundamente que “Trump sabía de las chicas”, muchas de las cuales eran menores de edad, según se descubrió posteriormente.
En otro mail, el condenado reflexionaba sobre cómo abordar las preguntas de los medios de comunicación sobre su relación a medida que Trump se convertía en una figura política nacional. Jeffrey Epstein se suicidó en 2019, antes de enfrentar el juicio por abuso sexual. (Foto: prensa Netflix)
Los tres intercambios de correos electrónicos separados publicados el miércoles datan de después del acuerdo de culpabilidad de Epstein en 2008 en Florida por cargos estatales de solicitar prostitución, en el que los fiscales federales acordaron no presentar cargos.
Ocurrieron años después de que Trump y Epstein tuvieran un supuesto distanciamiento a principios de la década de 2000. Uno estaba dirigido a la confidente de larga data de Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, mientras que dos eran con el autor Michael Wolff.
En un correo electrónico de abril de 2011, Epstein le dijo a Maxwell, quien posteriormente fue condenada por cargos relacionados con facilitar sus delitos: “Quiero que te des cuenta de que ese perro que no ha ladrado es Trump”.
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En ese mismo mensaje agregó que una víctima no identificada “pasó horas en mi casa con él, y nunca se lo ha mencionado”. “He estado pensando en eso”, respondió Maxwell.
En otro correo electrónico de enero de 2019, Epstein le escribió a Wolff sobre Trump: “Por supuesto que sabía de las chicas, ya que le pidió a Ghislaine que parara”.
Los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes, citando a un denunciante anónimo, dijeron esta semana que Maxwell se estaba preparando para pedirle formalmente a Trump que conmutara su sentencia de prisión federal. El príncipe de 65 años volvió a insistir en su inocencia frente a las denuncias por agresión sexual y por sus presuntos vínculos con el empresario estadounidense Jeffrey Epstein. (Foto: Reuters)
Los correos electrónicos se proporcionaron al Comité de Supervisión junto con un lote mayor de documentos del patrimonio de Epstein que el panel solicitó como parte de su investigación sobre el financista y Maxwell, que cumple una condena de 20 años por cargos de tráfico sexual.
La Cámara de Representantes tiene previsto regresar el miércoles para aprobar la legislación que ponga fin al cierre del gobierno y es probable que en ese contexto la atención vuelva al caso Epstein.
“Estos últimos correos electrónicos y correspondencia plantean preguntas evidentes sobre qué más está ocultando la Casa Blanca y la naturaleza de la relación entre Epstein y el presidente”, dijo en un comunicado el representante Robert García de California, el principal demócrata del Comité de Supervisión.
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Trump ha condenado las continuas preguntas sobre su manejo del caso como un “engaño” perpetrado por los demócratas. Ha llamado a Epstein un “repugnante” y ha insistido en que nunca participó en ninguna irregularidad con él ni con Maxwell.
A principios de este año, la administración Trump publicó la transcripción de una entrevista en el juzgado con Maxwell, que reconoció que Trump y Epstein habían tenido una relación social, pero negó cualquier conexión entre Trump y la red de tráfico sexual.
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