Washington is offloading deportees onto small island states that signed under duress. St. Kitts just received the first batch — and the question of who actually benefits has no clean answer.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 27, 2026 - Three people stepped off a plane in St. Kitts and Nevis last week and made history in the most uncomfortable way possible. They were not tourists. They were not seasonal workers. They were Caribbean nationals — from Jamaica and Belize — deported by the United States government and delivered to a third country that is not their home.