The police bus which transported the 17 deportees to Mobile Reserve after they arrived in Jamaica on Tuesday.
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The relatives of two persons deported from the UK on Tuesday
Some of the 17 Jamaicans who were deported from the UK were greeted by family members when they were taken to Mobile Reserve in St. Andrew Tuesday afternoon for processing.
Radio Jamaica News spoke with a man whose uncle was among those removed from the UK.
He said the deportation was unfair as his uncle had spent 19 years in England and has had to leave behind his four children.
About 56 Jamaicans were due to be deported.
However, Downing Street said several of them were prevented from removal as a result of Monday's Appeal Court ruling.
The court halted the deportation of Jamaicans at the Colnbrooke and Harmondsworth detention centres, near Heathrow, after lawyers argued that mobile phone signal problems meant some of the detainees could not get legal advice.
The ruling said the government must not deport anyone from the detention centres unless they had access to a functioning SIM card on or before February 3.
Family destroyed
A woman whose disabled partner was on the charter flight to Jamaica said their family has been destroyed because they were unable to afford legal help challenging his case in the courts.
Rayan Crawford, a 34 year old father of two, was deported despite having moved to the UK to join his British father at the age of 12.
Mr. Crawford's partner, Yana, said they had also wanted a judicial review into his removal but they were told by lawyers that it would cost £2,000, which they were unable to afford.
The Jamaican, from Tower Hamlets, was detained three weeks ago under immigration powers.
According to Yana, she does not know how to tell their sons, aged 12 and three, that their father will not be coming home.
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