Five more Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens have been de­port­ed from the Unit­ed States, a state­ment by the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain said on Fri­day.

The state­ment said that em­bassy per­son­nel col­lab­o­rat­ed close­ly with T&T part­ners to fa­cil­i­tate the ar­rival of a US Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment de­por­ta­tion char­ter flight at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

The three male and two fe­male Trin­bag­on­ian de­por­tees, rang­ing in age from 19 to 57, and all with sig­nif­i­cant crim­i­nal records, were processed by T&T Cus­toms and Im­mi­gra­tion and po­lice on ar­rival.