Eswatini agreed to take 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1m to “build its border and migration management capacity”.
By my account, that amounts to $31.875 per deportee.
Regardless of the sums involved, the United States are outsourcing their human rights abuses and bribing other countries to turn a blind eye by making them complicit. Eswatini and all the other countries that partake in “migration offshoring” schemes, like El Salvador, Albania and Rwanda, will likely not call out the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union for their criminal treatment of people who, by and large, desire to work and live in peace.
That’s it? That’s like an upper middle class boomer’s retirement fund. I presume much of the compensation is going to be in diplomatic concessions.
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By my account, that amounts to $31.875 per deportee.
Regardless of the sums involved, the United States are outsourcing their human rights abuses and bribing other countries to turn a blind eye by making them complicit. Eswatini and all the other countries that partake in “migration offshoring” schemes, like El Salvador, Albania and Rwanda, will likely not call out the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union for their criminal treatment of people who, by and large, desire to work and live in peace.