The Bahamas has rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to accept deported migrants, as President-elect Donald Trump pushes forward with plans to drastically reduce immigration. According to NBC News, Trump’s team has identified several countries to which it wants to deport migrants when their home countries refuse to accept them, with the Bahamas being one of those under consideration.
The Bahamian government issued a statement on Thursday confirming it had “firmly rejected” the proposal. Prime Minister Philip Davis’s office stated that the government received the offer to accept deportation flights from the Trump transition team but chose to decline. Since then, there have been no further discussions on the matter, the statement added.
Other nations being considered for the deportation plan include the Turks and Caicos, Panama, and Grenada. Trump’s anti-migrant stance, which helped propel his successful presidential campaign, centers on mass deportations, with a focus on eliminating undocumented immigrants who he claims contribute to crime. He has often referred to migrants as a threat to national security, even spreading false claims about Haitian migrants.
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In the face of criticism and difficulties in managing U.S. immigration policy, Trump has pledged to continue his hardline approach, including bringing back Tom Homan, a former immigration enforcement official, to oversee border control efforts. This plan echoes other controversial deportation strategies, such as the UK’s earlier attempt to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, which was abandoned following a change in government.
