National Security and Peace Minister Dr. Horace Chang Wednesday confirmed that Jamaica is in negoiations with the United States to accept no more than 25 non-criminal third-country nationals and refugees.
Chang told the weekly post Cabinet newsconference that Jamaica is not receiving any deportees from the United States, except Jamaicans.
‘Can I repeat that? We are not accepting, we have no agreement, no understanding to accept deportees from the United States.We accept every month 100 Jamaican deportees and we have the expertise and the staff to manage their entry into Jamaica.’
Chang told reporters that this arrangement is negotiated by professionals so that they those Jamaicans being sent home ‘can come in in a structured, organised manner and be resettled in Jamaica, their homeland.
‘The cost of that is all Jamaican. We are receiving, and we have no agreement to, our understanding is to receive convicts from the United States.’