A 44-year-old Mauritanian man who had lived in the United States for more than a decade was detained by ICE in January and flown to Eswatini, a small southern African kingdom he had never heard of. He spent a month and a half in a mosquito-infested prison with no hot water. He finally agreed to be flown back to Mauritania, then slipped over the border into Senegal, where the government recently doubled the maximum penalty for same-sex sexual acts. His case is among the 40 LGBT migrants Reuters documented being deported to hostile African countries. He is staying with relatives in a remote town and trying to find out whether any countries in Europe or Asia might accept him. "My life just got turned upside down," he said.