ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada authorities says there has not been a rise in Grenadians being deported from the USA since President Donald Trump returned to the White Home in January this 12 months.
“I don’t have the statistics on this. I can say, nonetheless, that primarily based on my final dialog with the Minister for Overseas Affairs and the Immigration Division, now we have seen no enhance in numbers of deportees since President Trump returned to the White Home,” Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell mentioned in his weekly media program “DM with the PM.”
In February this 12 months, Overseas Affairs Minister Joseph Andall confirmed that Grenada obtained communications from the Trump Administration that a number of Grenadians had been scheduled for deportation, however they didn’t present a quantity.
“We did get a communication from them in the direction of the top of January that they are going to most likely be repatriating or deporting Grenadian residents. In addition they spoke concerning the penalties of nations not eager to obtain their nationals,” he mentioned then.
Throughout his marketing campaign for the 2024 presidential election, Trump promised that there could be mass deportation of legal migrants if he had been elected. Since his inauguration in January, he has signed a number of govt orders leading to an enormous deportation of migrants to international locations all over the world.
Prime Minister Mitchell instructed viewers that “any deportees will likely be sought of regular normal processes that occurred up to now and because of that we don’t essentially must have a system in place to deal with with it as a result of we don’t envisage a big inflow of deportees into Grenada.
“But when they’re deported into Grenada and they’re residents of Grenada, they’re entitled to reside in Grenada; they’d not have dedicated any crimes in Grenada, however clearly, the safety forces will monitor and be sure that we are able to keep watch over issues within the occasion any of the deportees interact or search to interact in legal exercise in Grenada,” he mentioned.
Mitchell mentioned he wished to reassure Grenadians that, as Minister for Nationwide Safety, “the police are fairly vigilant, the Immigration authorities are fairly vigilant,” and that “there has not been any needed uptake in deportees since Donald Trump got here into workplace.”
Information from the Royal Grenada Police Power reveals that for the 5 years of 2020 to 2024, 197 nationals had been deported to Grenada, with the bulk coming from the UK.
