Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said 200 Venezuelans currently in TT’s prisons will shortly be deported as part of the government’s migrant policy to deal with illegal immigration and trafficking.

She made the statement in a WhatsApp message in response to questions from Newsday about a call by the Colombian president for TT to retrieve the bodies of the 11 people who were killed in the lethal US strike on an alleged drug boat on September 2.

Persad-Bissessar said the government’s migrant policy would not be lenient to those who are here illegally and cannot provide verifiable information on how they have been earning a living.