Jamaica's Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith - FILE PHOTO
Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has announced that the Jamaican man who was deported by the United States to the southern African country of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) is now in Jamaica.
Orville Etoria was deported to Eswatini in July and held in a maximum-security prison there for more than seven weeks without charge.
The Gleaner reports that on Monday evening Mrs Johnson Smith said the Jamaican Government was pleased to welcome Etoria back home and urged his fellow Jamaicans to respect his desire for a quiet return.
Etoria was among the first to be identified publicly of at least 20 deportees sent by the US to various African nations in the last two months.
The deportations are part of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country programme to crack down on immigration.
The New York-based Legal Aid Society said 62-year-old Etoria was convicted of a serious crime in the US in 1997 and was released from prison on parole in 2021.
The US Department of Homeland Security said in a post on X that Etoria had been convicted of murder.
The Legal Aid Society said the US Government had falsely claimed that Jamaica had refused to accept him back.
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