administration's move to cut back on global aid. Prime Minister Phillip J. Pierre of Saint Lucia stated, "Saint Lucia’s position is, we have citizens in the U.S. who are there illegally. Saint Lucia will cooperate with the U.S. as far as that is concerned. But you need to be respected." "You need to be treated as a state that obeys the laws and regulations of every country. We will not encourage anyone to disobey the laws of the United States, nor should anyone be encouraged to do so," Pierre said in an interview with the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC). Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda remarked, “Deporting nationals from the United States is nothing new. I’m told, actually, that under the Obama administration, more Caribbean nationals were deported than what has been reported recently under the Trump administration.”