As the Trump regime pushes ICE toward 3,000 arrests per day, the Caribbean diaspora finds itself caught in an enforcement machine that has abolished every safe space — from churches and hospitals to school gates and asylum interviews

MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA,  October 09, 2026 - Calvin G Brown - There was a time — measured not in decades but in months — when a Jamaican mother dropping her child at school in Brooklyn could do so without scanning the street for unmarked federal vehicles. When a Trinidadian grandmother attending Mass at her parish church in Miami could worship without wondering whether the men in the back pew carried badges. When a Guyanese father driving to his construction job in Houston could be pulled over for a broken taillight without being detained, cuffed, and entered into a deportation pipeline.  That time is over.