Prime Minister Andrew Holness is being urged to block a deportation flight set for next week from the United Kingdom.

Reports are that some 20 Jamaicans have been detained in recent weeks, in preparation for a deportation flight on November 10.

An emergency protest against the flight is set to take place outside the Jamaican High Commission in Kensington, central London, some time today.

As Holness spoke at the International Climate Conference, campaigners underscored the environmental as well as human cost of deportations and urged him not to collaborate with Home Office removal operations.

“They are contributing to the climate crisis in that way because the emissions of such a huge plane are being used to fly just a handful of people,” leading figure in the campaign and anti-racism activist Zita Holbourne shared.

The Human Rights campaign group Movement for Justice, who are in support of the deportation flights, have said that, of the 11 detainees they conversed with, eight came to Britain as children.

Thirty-one-year-old Akeem Finley, who is among the detainees, came to the country at the age of 10 and has been subjected to five attempts of deportation by the Home Office Removal Operations, most recently in the latter part of 2021 for causing bodily harm.

Finley shared that his life would be in danger if he returns to Jamaica, as he suffered from stab wounds from a gang at the age of nine, his family has received threats from the same gang and his cousin recently died at the hands of the gang members. The 31-year-old was refused when he made his claim for asylum.

The pending flight is the third attempt the Home Office Removal Operations has made to deport the Jamaicans within a year.

Officials have claimed that those booked on the flight for next week have committed serious and violent crimes.