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- Jamaica is negotiating a non-binding MOU with the United States to host deported third-country migrants.
- Deputy Prime Minister Horace Chang announced on June 16 the draft caps migrants at ten and limits transfers to twenty-five fortnightly, excluding criminal records.
- The United States will fund all expenses related to the arrangement.
- Chang said the plan mirrors agreements with Belize, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts and Nevis and refutes a ten-thousand-person quota.
