Deandrea Hamilton
Editor
The USA, February 1, 2025 – An unapologetic, unrelenting wave of ICE officers are carrying out the mandate of Donald Trump, the 10-day president of the United States; nearly 4,000 people have been caught, hundreds have already been sent back home.
“America will no longer tolerate illegal immigration and this president expects that every nation on this planet will cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens.

Franz Cadet, 43-year-old citizen of Haiti (DHS photo)
So to foreign nationals who are thinking about trying to illegally enter the United States, think again.” said Karoline Leavitt in her debut as the new press secretary at the White House.
Not surprisingly, it is Cuba and Haiti which top the list as having the most individuals who have been identified and likely rounded up with thousands of others who are in breach of US law.
There are 42,084 Cubans and 32,363 Haitians listed on a US Homeland Security list, which has been publicised.
“On January 22, ICE/Released law enforcement’s officers arrested Franz Cadet, a 43-year-old citizen of Haiti. Cadet was convicted of multiple drug offenses,” informed a Homeland Security report on the mass deportations.
Cadet is the man pictured above.
Also with thousands of deportees on the list are the Dominican Republic with 12,699; Jamaica with 5,120 and Trinidad and Tobago with 1,197. These jurisdictions, despite national progress, are often plagued with significant pull factors including the range of employment opportunities available in the United States.
There are no other identifying characteristics in the information provided but striking is how many, even from top performing small island states, are said to be in the United States illegally.
The Turks and Caicos has 25 on the list; The Bahamas has 426 on the list; from Barbados, there are 151; Antigua and Barbuda has 110 people on the list; 48 citizens of Guyana are also listed with some 202 St. Lucians and 899 citizens of Belize are also facing deportation.
The CBP One App, engineered by the Biden Administration to process asylum requests, was deactivated within the first hours of the Trump Administration. The ICE mass deportations were threatened by sanctuary cities, where its mayors tried to block the order. However, the Department of Homeland Security later announced it was able to get the override and moved in, to find, they say, the most heinous felons living in plain sight.
“ICE arrested 308 illegal migrants — including an attempted murderer and a child molester — on Trump’s first full day in office,” reported the New York Post.

Cesar Polanco, 59, from the Dominican Republic, picked up in Massachusetts by ICE. (ERO/ICE photo)
The Caribbean and CARICOM nations were not exempt in falling into this early category, where individuals who were found to have criminal records – whether in their home country or in the United States – were flagged as priority repatriations.
The Boston Herald reported, “A convicted murderer who beat his pregnant girlfriend to death in front of her 5-year-old boy in a booze-and-cocaine-fueled rage only to be paroled was one of the illegal immigrants grabbed by ICE last week just before he left jail.
The Dominican national was set free in December while serving just 17 years of a life sentence, according to the Massachusetts Parole Board. The state says he was held at MCI-Norfolk until his release date on Friday when ICE picked him up.”
The man was identified as Cesar Polanco, who committed the crime in Lawrence, Massachusetts had just gained parole which requested for him to remain in the US, despite the conviction. US law however mandates a repatriation of convicted felons. Polanco is now headed back to the DR. .
With smaller numbers of illegal migrants on the deportation list is Cayman and Aruba with two people each; British Virgin Islands with five; Montserrat with eight; Bermuda with 10 and Guadeloupe with 12 individuals listed for deportation.
In all, 95,948 people from the region were counted on the list, which was compiled since November. Also included are Dominica with 104 citizens; Grenada with 149 citizens; St Kitts and Nevis has 68 to be deported from the US; St Vincent and the Grenadine are listed wo have 127 of its people on the list and 37 citizens from Suriname, are also caught in this early wave of deportations by the new US government administration.