Five immigrant detainees from Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba and Yemen have been sent to the small nation of Eswatini in Southern Africa.

The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.

The full scope of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan – which has been evident in theory – is only just starting to come together in practice, and its scale has come as a surprise to many Americans.

"The third countries that have received or been about to receive third-country deportees so far—El Salvador, Libya, South Sudan, now Eswatini—are marked by serious pre-existing human rights violations. This is a recipe for prolonged arbitrary detention or worse."

Heidy Sánchez brought her young daughter with her to an appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Florida in April, her attorney says. Instead, it was the last time she saw her husband,

Alexandria Dowell's husband, a Cuban immigrant, was deported to Mexico, highlighting the struggles deportees face in third-country deportations.

The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.

The highlights this week: Africans express outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants to Eswatini, the European Union imposes a fourth round of sanctions on officials and companies linked to Sudan’s civil war, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pledge to sign a peace deal.

Multiple countries have been involved in third-country deportations as the Trump administration continues its large-scale immigration efforts.

Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is a landlocked country bordering Mozambique and South Africa. The nation is smaller than Maryland, suffers from severe poverty, high unemployment and the world's highest rate of HIV and AIDS, according to the CIA World Factbook.