“I actually don’t have the statistics on this. I can say, however, that based on my last conversation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Immigration Department that we have seen no increase in numbers of deportees since President Trump returned to the White House,” Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said on his weekly media programme ‘DM with the PM’. In February this year, Foreign Affairs Minister, Joseph Andall, confirmed that Grenada received communications from the Trump Administration that several Grenadians were scheduled for deportation, but they did not provide a number. “We did got communication from them towards the end of January that they will probably be repatriating or deporting Grenadians citizens. They also spoke about the consequences of countries not wanting to receive their nationals,” he said then.

During his campaign for the 2024 presidential election, Trump promised that there will be mass deportation of criminal migrants if he was elected and since his inauguration in January, he has signed several executive orders resulting in a massive deportation of migrants to countries around the world. Mitchell told viewers that “any deportees will be the sort of normal standard processes that happened in the past and as a result of that we don’t necessarily need to have a system in place to treat with it because we don’t envisage a large influx of deportees into Grenada. (Jamaica Gleaner)