Summary
The Bahamas has rejected a proposal from Donald Trump’s transition team to accept deported migrants from other nations, a key part of his plan to overhaul U.S. immigration policy.
Prime Minister Philip Davis’s office stated there have been no further discussions since their refusal.
Trump’s deportation strategy, which targets countries like Panama and Grenada, raises concerns about displacing individuals to nations they have no ties to.
This proposal aligns with Trump’s campaign promises of mass deportations and is overseen by Tom Homan, a hardline immigration official from Trump’s previous administration.
Trump doesn’t even follow his own country’s laws, I doubt he’ll care much about another’s.
Trump isn’t in charge of Bahamas. So if they say nobody gets off a plane in their airport, then nobody can get off the plane. The pilot can either sit in the cockpit forever or fly everyone home.
This is not a man who wouldn’t use force to make it happen anyway.
It’s pointless to use force. That would mean breaking all treaties with the Bahamas. Which would free the Bahamas to do things that are normally prohibited, like putting all the newly arrived immigrants on a boat and sailing them 50 miles right back to Florida.
This whole charade is pointless. We are not talking about a rational human.
Even Hitler couldn’t force anyone to take all Jewish immigrants he wanted to exile, this isn’t a game, no amount of force and stupidity works in this situation. You can’t dump people in other countries, the other countries have things like militaries, and air traffic controllers, and export/import goods to turn on and off. Even with all the termoil in Egypt, they’ve never taken in the whole population of Gaza as Isreal wants them to. Their goal has been to exile them for a long long time, it’s never going to work, and now they are killing them all. This is how ethnostates work, this is how authoritariaism, fascism, autocracy work. You vilified minority groups, blame everything on them, create a atmosphere of fear and hate, round them all up or force them all in one area, and when nothing can be done to solve the problem you created by doing this, you kill them all.
The point is THEY won’t brake THEIR laws. If you want an example of what the looks like, just look at Gaza and Egypt.