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Pedro Camacho

Panama Is The Latest Country to Balk at The Possibility of Receiving U.S. Deportees From Third Countries

Undocumented Venezuelan man deported in October 2023 (Credit: Photo by VERONICA G. CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images)

The governments of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands said on Thursday they would not receive U.S. deportees from third countries after a report from NBC News stated president-elect Donald Trump's intentions of doing so if their original countries would not accept them.

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" and that "the prime minister's priorities remain focused on addressing the concerns of the Bahamian people."

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