Defining deportees
Politics
June 20, 2026
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THE Government has doubled down on its claim that third-country nationals (TCNs) heading to Jamaica under a deal with the United States are not deportees.
In a social media post, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness reiterated the claim that Jamaica is not accepting foreign deportees from the US under the memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning the transfer of TCNs.
This despite Amnesty International describing third-country removals as a policy under which “people that the United States wants out of its territory” are sent “to countries other than their own”, fuelling debate over exactly who Jamaica has agreed to receive.
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