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A Major Victory: Orville Etoria Is Free.

We’re relieved to share that Orville Etoria has been released from an Eswatini prison and safely returned to Jamaica.

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Orville Etoria Released From African Jail, Returned to Jamaica
The United States government had deported Orville Etoria, who has Jamaican citizenship, to a prison in Eswatini, a country he had never been to and with which he had no ties.
legalaidnyc.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nytimes.com
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican citizen with legal residency in the U.S., was among five men with criminal records deported in July to a prison in Africa. His case highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
Trump Administration Deports Jamaican Man to African Prison Years After U.S. Sentence
The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
nyti.ms
September 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
gillianbrockell.com
No info yet on nationalities of the latest group.

These are the nationalities of the previous groups. Only Orville Etoria (Jamaica) and Pheap Rom (Cambodia) have been released.

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ESWATINI Date(s): July 15-16, 2025; Oct. 4-6, 2025; March 11-12, 2026; July 7-8, 2026 Who: In July, five men from Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen, plus Jamaican national Orville Etoria, who had all completed prison sentences in the US. At least three had been released into the community without incident before being detained by ICE and sent to Eswatini. DHS claimed their countries had refused to take them back, but attorneys for the men, and at least one of the countries, deny this. In October, a second group of 10 migrants from Cambodia, Chad, Congo, Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, the Philippines and Vietnam. In March, four people - one each from Tanzania and Sudan, plus two from Somalia. In July, 11 people of unknown national origins, according to attorney Alma David speaking to Reuters.
July 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
chanda.blacksky.app
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”

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Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
newyorker.com
Orville Etoria lived in New York for nearly 50 years. Then he was deported to a country he had never even heard of. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/I9s1Dz
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
newyorker.com
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. “It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,” he said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dLJ4SQ
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
gillianbrockell.com
Bring Rabiatu Kuyateh home.
Bring Maher Awad home.
Bring Diadie Camara home.
Bring Orville Etoria home.
Bring Roberto Mosquera del Paral home.
Bring them all home!

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US judge rejects Trump policy allowing swift deportations to alternate countries
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration policy allowing for the rapid deportation of migrants to countries other than their own, without giving them a meaningful opportunity t...
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February 25, 2026 at 6:31 PM
qjurecic.bsky.social
A district court enjoined these third-country removals in April 2025. SCOTUS stayed the injunction on June 23, 2025. Roberto Mosquera was deported to Eswatini on July 16, 2025.

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ESWATINI: FIVE DETAINED DEPORTEES DENIED LEGAL ACCESS
On July 16, Roberto Mosquera Del Peral, Kassim Saleh Wasil, Dung Tien Nguyen, Phone Chomsavanh, and Orville Etoria were deported from the U.S. to Eswatini, as part of the United States government’s ma...
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August 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
gillianbrockell.com
Oh yeah. There are many things happening here, depending on each person and their country of origin. ICE previously said all of the countries of origin had refused to issue travel documents, but we know Orville Etoria had an active Jamaican passport on him at the time he was sent to Eswatini, and
March 25, 2026 at 7:27 AM
aihertzaran.eurosky.social
Emadazu beŕiro ongi etoŕia
Zu zara nire poz guztien ituŕia

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Gelditzeko nator (e)ta!
March 11, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
A Jamaican Man Served Time in the U.S., Then Was Deported to an African Prison
The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Man Who’d Served His Time in U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison
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September 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Tony Etoria #sts70s
May 24, 2026 at 6:50 PM
democracymatters.bsky.social
Neither Eswatini nor the US could explain why Etoria was being held, and Jamaican officials contested the Trump administration's claim that their country had refused to accept Etoria.

4/4
September 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
radical-care.bsky.social
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Nov 24
The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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O Vito chama Vito pq ele é Vitório (achei no lixo)
convenção anual de bebês achados no lixo oi, eu sou vitoria eu tanbem, vitoria vitoria tbn viotria vitoria e etoria viotira vittaari vitor vixoria rar caçambito eu
March 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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Eswatini government says it has repatriated US deportee to Jamaica
Eswatini government says it has repatriated US deportee to Jamaica
Orville Isaac Etoria had been held in prison in the southern African state after Trump's government expelled him.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
imamewd.bsky.social
Im confused. He served 25 years for murder. Then he was released and got a job. So why was he imprisoned again then deported to africa?

Wtf is happening in this story

Like isnt he supposed to be sent to jamaica? Not some random place in africa who gets 10 million for his head?
After fatally shooting a man in the head in Brooklyn in 1996, Orville Etoria was convicted of murder and given a prison sentence of 25 years to life. During his incarceration, Mr. Etoria, a Jamaican citizen with legal residency in the United States, was ordered deported by an immigration judge. But upon his release in 2021, immigration officials allowed him to stay in America, provided he complete annual check-ins with the authorities. To those close to Mr. Etoria, 62, it was a reprieve that gave him a second chance at life. He earned a bachelor’s degree while behind bars, successfully completed parole after he got out, got a job at a men’s shelter and started pursuing a master’s degree in divinity. To those who support President Trump’s stated mission to deport the “worst of the worst” and other immigrants in record numbers, Mr. Etoria is exactly the kind of dangerous felon who should be expelled from the United States. In July, Mr. Etoria became a target of Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. He was among five men with criminal records deported to a prison in the kingdom of Eswatini, a southern African nation where none of the men hold citizenship. A Trump administration official called them “barbaric” and said that the men’s home countries had refused to accept them. Mr. Etoria’s case represents a tension at the heart of the administration’s deportation agenda. Some legal experts argue that there is little justification for sending immigrants to far-flung countries where they have never been and can be detained indefinitely without charges, as is the case for Mr. Etoria. These critics argue that the administration is unnecessarily putting deportees at risk by sending them to unfamiliar nations where they have few prospects or access to due process, instead of simply sending them home. Image In a statement to The New York Times, the Department of Homeland Security countered that Mr. Etoria should have been deported long ago. “Our message is clear: Criminals are not welcome in the United States,” the statement said. Mr. Etoria has not seen a lawyer since his arrival in Eswatini, his lawyers say, and family members say they have had little contact with him and are worried about his condition. Mr. Etoria’s aunt Margaret McKen asserted that he should have been deported to Jamaica, where he holds a valid passport. “It’s inhumane,” she said. “He paid the penalty for what he did. Why is he in prison again?” Neither Eswatini nor the United States has explained why Mr. Etoria is being held despite completing his sentence in America and not being accused of any new crimes. Since the early days of Mr. Trump’s second term, his government has brokered deals with countries to accept deportees from other nations. Immigration officials have instituted new rules that allow these third-country deportations from the United States in as little as six hours. Some experts say the policy is part of an effort to encourage people to leave the United States voluntarily or risk being sent to a distant, unknown land. The administration has already sent foreign nationals to third countries that have concerning human rights records, including El Salvador and South Sudan. In its statement, D.H.S. warned that immigrants who commit crimes in the United States should expect to “end up in CECOT, Eswatini, South Sudan, or another third country.” (CECOT is a notorious prison in El Salvador.) The Eswatini government at one point requested a half-billion dollars from the United States in exchange for taking in third-country deportees, according to documents obtained by The Times.
September 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
waterwriter23220.bsky.social
illegal #deportation without due process

#trumpsteinfiles #trumpsteinwar #fucktrump
#fdt #ihdy?

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Eswatini: Further information: US deportations to Eswatini continue - Amnesty International
16 July 2026 marked one year since Roberto Mosquera Del Peral, Kassim Saleh Wasil, Dung Tien Nguyen, Phone Chomsavanh and Orville Etoria were deported from the United States to Eswatini and detained a...
www.amnesty.org
August 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
stevebev.bsky.social
Also re refoulment and arbitrary detentions by Eswatini www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne....
Eswatini: Repatriation of Jamaican national must be followed by justice for all US deportees
Eswatini’s authorities must disclose why Orville Etoria was held in detention without charge for more than two months,
www.amnesty.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
falo2.bsky.social
What a horrible Odyssee
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A Jamaican man deported by the US to Eswatini has been repatriated, authorities say
A Jamaican man who was among five migrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in Africa has been repatriated to his home country, Eswatini authorities said Monday. Orville Etoria was held in a...
uk.yahoo.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
shawnconnery.bsky.social
"The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely."

What? Being detained abroad indefinitely represents a "tension"?
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“I Can Prove It” by Tony Etoria #nowplaying #radio2
September 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
offthechart.show
"I Can Prove It" was originally a no.21 hit for Tony Etoria in 1977. This version by Phil Fearon (for once without Galaxy) was new at 44 this week and went as high as no.8, but was his last top 40 hit. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
July 30, 2024 at 8:44 PM