ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government says there has not been an increase in Grenadians being deported from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January this year.
“I don’t have the statistics on this. I can say, however, that based on my last conversation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Immigration Department, we have seen no increase in numbers of deportees since President Trump returned to the White House,” Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said in his weekly media program “DM with the PM.”
In February this year, Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Andall confirmed that Grenada received communications from the Trump Administration that several Grenadians were scheduled for deportation, but they did not provide a number.
“We did get a communication from them towards the end of January that they will probably be repatriating or deporting Grenadian citizens. They also spoke about the consequences of countries not wanting to receive their nationals,” he said then.
During his campaign for the 2024 presidential election, Trump promised that there would be mass deportation of criminal migrants if he were elected. Since his inauguration in January, he has signed several executive orders resulting in a massive deportation of migrants to countries around the world.
Prime Minister Mitchell told viewers that “any deportees will be sought of normal standard processes that happened in the past and as a result of that we don’t necessarily need to have a system in place to treat with it because we don’t envisage a large influx of deportees into Grenada.
“But if they are deported into Grenada and they are citizens of Grenada, they are entitled to live in Grenada; they would not have committed any crimes in Grenada, but obviously, the security forces will monitor and make sure that we can keep an eye on things in the event any of the deportees engage or seek to engage in criminal activity in Grenada,” he said.
Mitchell said he wanted to reassure Grenadians that, as Minister for National Security, “the police are quite vigilant, the Immigration authorities are quite vigilant,” and that “there has not been any necessary uptake in deportees since Donald Trump came into office.”
Data from the Royal Grenada Police Force shows that for the five years of 2020 to 2024, 197 nationals were deported to Grenada, with the majority coming from the United Kingdom.
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