The gov­ern­ment of the Ba­hamas on Thurs­day re­ject­ed a pro­pos­al from the in­com­ing Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion in the Unit­ed States to take in de­port­ed mi­grants.

As the pres­i­dent-elect pledges to tack­le im­mi­gra­tion once he en­ters of­fice in Jan­u­ary, Trump’s team has drawn up a list of coun­tries to which it wants to de­port mi­grants when their home coun­tries refuse to ac­cept them.

How­ev­er, the of­fice of Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis said the gov­ern­ment had turned down “a pro­pos­al from the Trump tran­si­tion team in the Unit­ed States for The Ba­hamas to ac­cept de­por­ta­tion flights of mi­grants from oth­er coun­tries.”

Since the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­jec­tion of this pro­pos­al, there has been no fur­ther en­gage­ment or dis­cus­sions with the Trump tran­si­tion team,” the state­ment added.

Oth­er coun­tries that the Trump team is con­sid­er­ing in­clude Turks and Caicos, Pana­ma and Grena­da.

NAS­SAU, Ba­hamas, Dec. 5, CMC

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