UK deportation flight to Jamaica

Seven persons were deported to Jamaica aboard a Home Office deportation flight that took departure early Wednesday morning.

According to reports in the media, the Home Office initially had 100 Jamaican citizens on its list of persons to deport.

Although the number was small, it was more than the four who were deported to Jamaica in November. Four of the most recent flights carried 17, 13, seven, and four passengers, respectively.

Deportation flights to Jamaica are among the most problematic operations carried out by the Home Office, since many of people targeted for removal have Windrush links or have lived in the UK since childhood, with children and other close relations.

County borders grooming and exploitation have been discovered in some youths convicted of drug and gun offences.

Nearly 20 individuals were scheduled to fly as of Tuesday noon, but several had their tickets cancelled when legal action was filed on their behalf.

Mark Nelson, who has lived in the UK for 22 years, has five British children, and was facing deportation following a conviction for producing cannabis plants, was among those who did not travel. The ticket of a 34-year-old guy with serious learning disabilities was also cancelled.

On Tuesday evening, some 30 inmates who were not scheduled to fly to Jamaica blocked the exercise yard at Colnbrook immigration removal centre near Heathrow airport to prevent authorities from taking three males who were scheduled to depart. The demonstration was broken up, and the three guys were escorted to Stansted Airport to board their trip.

“At 2 a.m. this morning we had to comfort a new mother whose family and future had been ripped apart,” Karen Doyle of Movement for Justice, an organisation that has been lobbying against Wednesday’s charter flight, said. She has to inform their five-year-old daughter, who adores her father, that he will most likely never be in the same room with them again. These trips are harsh and violent.”

“Those with no right to be in the UK, including foreign national criminals, should be in no doubt that we will do everything it takes to remove them,” a spokeswoman for the Home Office said. This is what the public expects, and it is why we fly to other nations on a regular basis.

“By speeding the deportation of individuals who have no right to be here, the new immigration plan will address the dysfunctional immigration system and halt the abuse we’re seeing.”