Trinidad and Tobago, in a deepening diplomatic row with Caracas over US military activity in the Caribbean, was on Tuesday mulling a "mass deportation" of undocumented migrants -- most of whom are Venezuelans -- from its territory.

In a government memorandum seen by AFP, the twin-island nation's homeland security minister ordered a halt to any planned releases of "illegal immigrants" in detention, saying "consideration is currently being given to the implementation of a mass deportation exercise."

The nations are at loggerheads over US ally Trinidad hosting an American warship at a time Caracas accuses Washington of plotting President Nicolas Maduro's ouster under the guise of a military anti-drug operation.

On Monday, Caracas claimed it had dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a fal

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