No Caymanians deported from US in Trump crackdown
(CNS): Two Caymanians are on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s non-detained docket as of November 2024. ICE’s non-detained docket is a list of every person in the United States who is there illegally and not currently held in ICE detention. However, Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control has said that no Caymanians have been deported by the US authorities.
“There are no pending deportations involving Caymanians,” officials said in an email responding to our inquiries. “As a receiving country, the Cayman Islands can expect advance notice, approximately two weeks, before the United States deports an individual to Cayman.”
The new Trump administration is committed to deporting millions of illegal migrants, and many come from the Caribbean and Central American regions. Nearly a million of the more than 1.4 million on this particular list come from just four countries — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
There are no names on this list, just the number of people the government says are in the US illegally and not in ICE detention, though they could be in the custody of another US authority, such as federal, state or local law enforcement. According to an article on Border Report, some of the data on the docket goes back decades and includes people who may have since left the country.
US media is reporting that since President Donald Trump was inaugurated on 20 January, his administration has arrested more than 8,000 illegal migrants who have either now been deported or are awaiting deportation.
According to ICE, under the previous administration, there were an average of 311 immigration deportations daily, mostly individuals who had committed crimes. According to figures by the Migration Policy Institute, over the four years, there were 1.5 million deportations, about the same as the deportation numbers in Trump’s first term.
However, as detention centres fill up beyond capacity, ICE is having to release some detainees, according to US media reports.
See ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Statistics here.
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if it’s any Caymanian to be deported it will be paper Caymanian
Is there anyone who can help me find about my father inheritance his mother left him so I can help him stay in America 🇺🇸
most pf them ja’s will be in Grand without a few months. sad. very sad indeed.
if it was Caymanians, it probably been paper Caymanians
My father Ali Dilbert is in a holding cell to get deported back home his family siblings our Reba Dilbert esmi Dilbert and mellow Dilbert and he has two brothers Michael and Virgil
We need no worry ourselves about two (or a few) Caymanians being deported back home from the USA. Who we need to worry about are the vast number of deportees from especially Jamaica and Honduras, among others, who will eventually end up in Cayman as a result of Trump’s deportations.
Are CBC, WORC, Coast Guard, RCIPS even paying attention to that? Bet ya NOT!!!
I honestly don’t understand why everyone is losing their minds over the deportations in the US. Whether you love or hate Trump, every country has a right to say who can come into their country. If you do it legally no one has a problem. The people being deported are those who have committed crimes or those who entered illegally (which is a crime in itself). What is wrong with this? Here in Cayman, we do the same. How can a country be a country without borders?
No. Here in Cayman we do not do the same thing. That is the source of many of our problems.
Yes’m we do. When people — probably good people — arrive on our shores illegally, we detain them, pay for their detention and care (often to the tune of $5-10,000 per person) and negotiate their repatriation to their native country.
If those same people get close to setting foot, but don’t land on any of the islands, just occasionally they are given goods to help them on their way to somewhere else. Only those from Cuba come here illegally. It is the same in virtually every nation around the world; there are avenues with which a person can immigrate legally, and everything else is illegal.
Marriages of convenience is the scam Jamaicans have used for years. They too are illegal immigrants, but protected by their Bodden Town MPs.
Trump is revoking the CBP probation program that invited qualifying nationalities, sponsored by USA landed family members, to work in minimum wage jobs that weren’t being held by Americans. They were legally resident guest workers, hoping to earn in over time. They were not eating cats.
At worst, there might be Caymanians who overstayed the terms of their Visa, however I seriously doubt any Caymanians illegally crossed the U.S. border.
Except for Kenny maybe?
Probably Jamaicans with Status.
No. Even they require a Visa, just like the rest of us. The previous U.S. government didn’t want documented immigrants, they wanted those who they could control under the guise of sanctuary.
Wonder if President Trump will deport more illegal immigrants than President Obama’s 3 million illegal immigrants deportation tally.
Thank goodness the Cayman Islands has common sense and wisdom to enforce immigration laws. Cayman would be a mess without it.
It also helps that Cayman is an “Island” and it is not just like walking over a land board in the middle of nowhere. There is not much comparison
Honey Chile if you only know how many are here illegally and are in plain sight.
If you know something, and you don’t say anything, you are part of the problem, Honey Chile, aka bitter American.
Umm… we do not enforce our immigration laws.
Can Cayman deport some Caymanians, politicos in exile in Guantanemo…