DHS sends migrants to Eswatini in new 3rd-country deportation

• Acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Todd Lyons said in a memo that such deportations could take place within six hours of notification "in exigent circumstances," the Washington Post first reported this week.
• However, Lyons said in the July 9 memo that ICE would typically wait 24 hours after informing people that they would be deported.

Driving the news: "NEW: a safe third country deportation flight to Eswatini in Southern Africa has landed— This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back," Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said on X Tuesday night.

• They were convicted of a range of crimes that included child rape and murder, according to McLaughlin.

The intrigue: It wasn't immediately clear when Trump officials had made a deal with their counterparts in Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, to deport migrants to the southern African nation or what the terms were.

• Representatives for the DHS and the Eswatini Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment early Wednesday.

Flashback: Following the Supreme Court ruling, eight men from Asia and Latin America who were at the center of the case were deported to South Sudan earlier this month.

Go deeper: Here are the 3rd-countries where the Trump admin is deporting migrants