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USA deported 6 to Grenada during 2020

This story was posted 2 years ago
1 February 2021
in General News
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by Linda Straker

  • 6 criminal deportees from USA deported to Grenada during 2020
  • Grenada’s Deportation Registration Act requires RGPF to have a registry of all deportees
  • Grenada deported 9 persons during 2020

6 of the 17 people deported to Grenada during 2020 were criminal deportees from the USA who were the subject of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

The others are from different islands within Caricom and other international partners with which Grenada has bilateral deportation agreements.

The 2020 deportations were the least number to have returned from the USA since 2018 when 9 people were deported. 13 were deported in 2018. Special permission was given to a US plane to land at the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) when 2 of the 2020 deportees arrived in May.

Special permission had to be given because at the time the country’s ports of entry were closed because of lockdown measures enforced by Government as part of its strategy to contain and control the spread Covid-19.

According to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement and Removal Operations Report, the overall removal number decreased because of the global pandemic. “While ICE removal operations continued throughout FY 2020, the overall removal number decreased due to:

  1. much lower numbers of aliens arriving at the Southwest Border,
  2. CBP’s use of Title 42 authority,
  3. a temporary decrease in ICE ERO enforcement actions within the interior of the country,
  4. precautions taken by ICE ERO to help ensure the safety of those being removed, as well as staff and contractors,
  5. restrictions on air travel, and
  6. the reluctance of a number of countries to accept the return of their nationals early on in the pandemic.”

An ICE removal is the compulsory and confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) shares responsibility for administering and enforcing the nation’s immigration laws with ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), as well as other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component agencies, including US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

ICE ERO is responsible for protecting the homeland through the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who undermine public safety or the integrity of United States immigration laws, and its main areas of focus are interior enforcement operations, management of the agency’s detained population nationwide, and repatriation of aliens who have received a final order of removal. The removals include both aliens arrested by ICE ERO in the interior of the country and aliens who are apprehended by CBP and subsequently turned over to ICE ERO for removal.

All persons deported to Grenada are required to register with the police under Grenada’s Deportation Registration Act which came into effect on 31 October 2003. The legislation requires the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) to have a registry of all deportees. Some can be designated as restricted persons “once the Minister for National Security may, by order, upon application by the Commissioner and upon being satisfied that it is necessary to do so in the interest of public safety or public order.”

The Ministry of National Security has also confirmed that Grenada deported 9 persons during the year 2020.

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  1. viewsonicme says:
    2 years ago

    Good! Thanks for sharing your valuable information with us. This post is very beneficial for me. I am read this blog in these blog very nice ideas.

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  2. . says:
    2 years ago

    They will need to make sure that they have a clean criminal record and are able to fit back into society properly because we do not want dangerous criminals walking the streets in Grenada.

    I think it is time that we strike against the US. We must ban Americans from entering Grenada and then force the USA to sign a visa waiver agreement with us and then we shall have fair travel and trade amongst us.

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  3. Storm says:
    2 years ago

    So for the record 9 people were deported from the US on 2020 and it is stated that those 9 people should registered with the police but what are the conditions?
    Are they class as normal citizens once they are on Grenada soil and are free to do whatever?
    How long are they kept on record and who check up on them to make sure they are not breaking the law.
    I am surprised that this information is not taken seriously as we may have some very dangerous folks walking amongst us.

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