A TOTAL of 2,111 Jamaicans were deported from the United States from September 2001 to October 2002 (that country's fiscal year 2002), according to figures from the U.S. Embassy in Kingston.
A total of 1,511 of the deportees were categorised as 'criminal', with 600 being classified as 'non-criminal'.
In the U.S. fiscal year 2001, the number of deportees sent back to Jamaica was 2,017, with 1,298 being classified as 'criminal' and 719 as 'non-criminal'.
Jamaica ranks No. 8 in terms of deportee destinations from the United States, behind 1. Mexico; 2. Honduras; 3. Guatemala; 4. El Salvador; 5. Dominican Republic; 6. Brazil and 7. Colombia.
It is followed by 9. Haiti, 10. Pakistan, 11. Canada, 12. Peru; 13. Nigeria; 14. the Philippines; 15. Ecuador, 16. the People's Republic of China; 17. Argentina; 18. India; 19. Nicaragua and 20. Trinidad and Tobago.
Of the top 35 countries whose nationals were deported from the United States in fiscal year 2002, the largest single number, 108,287, were from Mexico, with the smallest, 177 being deported from Belize.
