The UK will deport more Jamaicans on November 10
This will be the second flight in three months and the fourth since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chairman of the Windrush National Organisation, Dr Desmond Jaddoo, said that it is unknown how many people will be deported.
On August 11, seven Jamaicans were deported aboard a UK Home Office charter plane.
Ninety people were deported.
Statistics from the Home Office show that 140 Jamaicans with criminal convictions deport on six flights between 2016 and 2021.
Jaddoo said some charter flights had left the UK "virtually empty" and "extreme cost" to British taxpayers.
"We understand the expense came to about a quarter of a million pounds. If there are late legal challenges and that reduces the number of people on a flight, it's because there are flaws in the decision-making processes; otherwise, judges would not be intervening and taking people off flights," he said of the August 11 flight.
Further, statistics show that the numbers have fallen on every next flight since a plane left on September 7, 2016, with 42 people on board.
The only year there was more than one flight was 2020, with 17 people removed in February and 13 in December.
Jaddoo also raised concern about deportation charter flights amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the time of the last flight to Jamaica, the number of deportees was drastically reduced because of an outbreak of COVID at one of the detention centres.
"When you look at the bigger picture, it begs the question of why deportation flights are flying during the pandemic," he said.
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