A US Embassy document seen by The Gleaner reveals Kingston and Washington are set to open talks on an arrangement that could see Jamaica accepting up to 10,000 non-Jamaicans deported from the United States — a proposal hatched behind closed doors, without parliamentary debate, public consultation, or so much as a press briefing from the Holness administration. Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, it turns out, was already asking the hard questions months before the document surfaced.

A Deal Born in the Dark