Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has confirmed that Grenada has not skilled a rise in deportees from the US since Donald Trump returned to the White Home in January 2025.
Throughout his weekly “DM with the PM” programme on Tuesday, Mitchell addressed issues concerning the mass deportation of migrants promised by Trump throughout his 2024 presidential marketing campaign. Since taking workplace because the forty seventh President of the USA, Trump has overseen important deportations globally.
Responding to a query about deportee numbers arriving in Grenada, Mitchell stated, “I truly don’t have the statistics on this. I can say, nonetheless, that based mostly on my final dialog with the Minister for Overseas Affairs and the Immigration Division, we’ve got seen no improve within the variety of deportees since President Trump returned to the White Home.”
He added, “Any deportees would be the type of regular requirements processes that occurred prior to now and because of that, we don’t essentially have to have a system in place to take care of it as a result of we don’t envisage a big inflow of deportees into Grenada.”
Mitchell reassured residents that deportees who’re Grenadian nationals have the best to stay within the nation. “But when they’re deported into Grenada and they’re residents of Grenada, they’re entitled to stay in Grenada. They might not have dedicated any crimes in Grenada, however clearly the safety forces will monitor and guarantee that we will regulate issues within the occasion any of the deportees interact or search to have interaction in felony exercise in Grenada,” he defined.
He emphasised the vigilance of regulation enforcement, saying, “So, I wish to guarantee the caller that as Minister for Nationwide Safety, that the police are fairly vigilant; the immigration authorities are fairly vigilant however there has not been any mandatory uptake in deportees since Donald Trump got here into workplace.”
Between 2020 and 2024, the Royal Grenada Police Power (RGPF) recorded 197 nationals returning to Grenada as deportees, with the biggest quantity coming from the UK.
Earlier this yr, in February 2025, Overseas Affairs Minister Joseph Andall disclosed that Grenada had acquired communication from the Trump Administration indicating that a number of Grenadians have been scheduled for deportation, although no particular numbers have been offered.
“We did get communication from them in the direction of the tip of January that they are going to in all probability be repatriating or deporting Grenadian residents. Additionally they spoke concerning the penalties of nations not desirous to obtain their nationals,” Andall stated.
