When 15 immigrants from Latin America boarded a deportation flight in shackles last month, they had no idea Donald Trump’s administration was sending them to the Congo.
Months earlier, 19 men were sent to the tiny land-locked African nation of Eswatini, the continent’s only absolute monarchy. Eight others were sent to South Sudan, where a dire humanitarian crisis fueled by warring parties has put millions of people on the brink of starvation.