The governments of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands said on Thursday they will not receive U.S. deportees from third countries. The refusal follows a report detailing that the incoming Donald Trump administration was planning on conducting such an initiative and those countries, as well as Panama, Grenada, and Mexico were among the countries potentially receiving deportation flights.
Both countries issued statements of their own after the report, with the office of Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis saying the country "simply does not have the resources to accommodate such a request." "The prime minister's priorities remain focused on addressing the concerns of the Bahamian people."
