(FILES) US President-elect Donald Trump speaks throughout a gathering with Home Republicans on the Hyatt Regency lodge in Washington, DC on November 13, 2024. | Photograph by ALLISON ROBBERT / POOL / AFP
WASHINGTON, United States — The Bahamas on Thursday stated it had rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to obtain deported migrants, with Mexico and Panama additionally stressing they might solely take again their very own residents.
Donald Trump’s staff has drawn up an inventory of nations to which it desires to deport undocumented migrants when their dwelling international locations refuse to simply accept them, in keeping with NBC Information.
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Sources instructed the tv community that the international locations which are being thought of embody the Bahamas, Grenada, Panama and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
However the Bahamas — an island nation within the Atlantic Ocean — stated it had “reviewed and firmly rejected” the plan from the US president-elect, who campaigned for the White Home on a pledge to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants.
Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis’s workplace stated in a press release that his authorities had obtained a proposal from the Trump transition staff “to simply accept deportation flights of migrants from different international locations.”
“For the reason that Prime Minister’s rejection of this proposal, there was no additional engagement or discussions with the Trump transition staff,” the assertion added.
The Panamanian overseas ministry stated it had obtained no such proposal from the Trump staff, formally or unofficially.
“What’s extra, underneath worldwide regulation we’re underneath no obligation to absorb deportees who should not Panamanian,” it stated in a press release.
Panama desires to have good relations with the USA however “the overseas ministry believes clearly that our essential mission is to guard the pursuits of Panama.”
The Turks and Caicos additionally stated it will not settle for deportees.
“Turks and Caicos, like all nations, has the sovereign proper to find out who could reside inside its borders,” Immigration Minister Arlington Musgrove instructed the Miami Herald.
“The unilateral imposition of third-country deportation insurance policies, reminiscent of these reportedly into consideration by the incoming Trump administration, is basically at odds with worldwide norms and authorized requirements,” Musgrove instructed the newspaper.
‘Invasion’
Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum stated her nation has an settlement with the Biden administration underneath which non-Mexicans crossing into the USA from Mexico with out papers are despatched straight again to their international locations of origin, and he or she hopes this can proceed with Trump.
“After all, we present solidarity with all individuals however our essential perform is to absorb Mexicans and we hope to have an settlement with the Trump administration in case there are these deportations,” she stated.
Trump’s staff made no instant remark Thursday on the proposal reported by NBC, which appeared to disclose one a part of how the incoming president plans to enact radical migration reform when in workplace.
The deportation plan might imply that migrants are completely displaced in international locations to which they don’t have any hyperlinks.
It’s not clear if the migrants could be allowed to work — or what stress Trump could apply to get international locations to agree, NBC stated.
The US authorities has struggled for years to handle its southern border with Mexico, and Trump on the marketing campaign path focused issues by claiming a migrant “invasion” is underway.
At rallies, he repeatedly railed in opposition to undocumented immigrants, accusing them of rape and homicide and attacking those that “poison the blood” of the USA.
He has vowed to deal with migrant gangs utilizing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — which permits the federal authorities to spherical up and deport foreigners belonging to enemy international locations.
Trump additionally promoted the fictional story that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, had been consuming residents’ pets.
The incoming president final month stated he was bringing again hardline immigration official Tom Homan to supervise the nation’s borders.
Homan led immigration enforcement throughout a part of Trump’s first administration.
A British plan to deport its asylum seekers to Rwanda was dropped earlier this 12 months when the Labour Get together took energy underneath Keir Starmer after ousting the Conservatives.
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