Bahamas rejects Trump proposal to take deported migrants

WASHINGTON: The Bahamas on Thursday said it had rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to take in deported migrants, as the next US president seeks to follow up on pledges to slash immigration.

Donald 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, according to NBC News.

But the Bahamas -- an island nation set in the Atlantic Ocean -- said it had “reviewed and firmly rejected” the plan.

Prime Minister Philip Davis´s office said his government had received a proposal from the Trump transition team “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 Trump is considering include Turks and Caicos, Panama and Grenada, sources told NBC.

The president-elect based his successful White House run on vicious anti-migrant rhetoric, blaming migrants for a supposed national crime wave and promising to carry out mass deportations.