The Bahamas has rejected a proposal from the US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition staff to obtain deported migrants as the previous president appears to be like to fulfil guarantees to ‘management immigration’.
Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis “firmly rejected” a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to absorb flights of migrants deported from the US.
In a press release launched by his workplace, the Bahamian premier says his authorities has reviewed the proposal fastidiously and couldn’t approve the plan.
“The Bahamas merely doesn’t have the assets to accommodate such a request.” It continued saying prime minister Davis is firmly dedicated to coverage of precedence to the Bahamian individuals and tackling points which can be of concern to them.
For the reason that rejection, there was no additional dialogue or dialogue between Davis’ authorities and the Trump transition staff.
A report by US media outlet NBC says the president-elect’s staff have reached out to a number of Caribbean international locations with the identical proposal.
Their findings point out that Trump’s incoming administration contacted the governments of Turks and Caicos, Panama, Grenada, the Bahamas and probably others.
Final month, Donald Trump secured a victory in what was dubbed as probably the most essential election in current US historical past.
He defeated incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, who chaired the Democratic ticket, profitable each the favored vote, and the electoral faculty 312-226.
Throughout his marketing campaign, the previous president pledged to manage the borders, vowing to hold out the biggest deportation operation within the nation’s historical past.
Trump’s operating mate, JD Vance, estimated their incoming administration might take away as much as a million individuals per yr, to reverse Biden insurance policies, which Trump claims allowed 18 million undocumented migrants into the nation.
