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He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of

He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of

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The Trump administration deported Robert Mosquera to Eswatini, and he has found himself with no way out.

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In its efforts to deport as many undocumented immigrants as
possible, the Trump administration has increasingly relied on a
highly controversial strategy: deporting people to countries they
have no connection to.

Last week, a federal court ruled the practice to be illegal
because it violated people’s right to due process. The
administration challenged that ruling, and now it is in front of
the Supreme Court.

Nicholas Casey tells the story of Roberto Mosquera, who moved to
the United States from Cuba as a child. He has been held in the
small country of Eswatini since July 2025.

Guest: Nicholas Casey, a staff writer at The New
York Times Magazine who writes about geopolitics.

Background reading:

He was deported to a country he’d never heard of. He may
never go free.

How do you interview a deportee being held inside a
maximum-security prison?

Photo: Moises Saman/Magnum, for The New York Times

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