Thread: Caribbean states assail U.S. over deportations

Caribbean states assail U.S. over deportations

Sat May 23, 2009 11:55pm EDT

BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) - The United States should review its policy on deporting West Indian criminals back to their home countries, Caribbean nations told U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Saturday.

The issue is a major irritant between Caribbean states and their larger neighbor. Others include the regulation of tax havens and the use by criminal networks of the West Indies as a staging post for illicit drugs bound for U.S. consumers.

Large numbers of people migrate from the West Indies to the United States each year seeking education and employment.

But under a 1996 U.S. law, criminals convicted of offences ranging from murder to shoplifting as well as low-level drug infractions can face deportation from the United States.

"That vexed issue of repatriation of offenders from the United States of America" dominated a meeting between Holder and West Indian attorneys general in the Barbados capital Bridgetown, according to Barbados' Attorney General Freundel Stuart.

Holder stressed the need for a mutual diplomatic relationship, comments aimed at soothing West Indian governments who seek give-and-take in their relations with the United States.

"We recognize that the attorneys general represented here today are all essential partners and we are committed to being good partners in return," Holder said.

"We are all committed to improving security, to strengthening our borders and to combating the plague of gangs and drugs and to reducing recidivism," he said, adding that Washington was giving an additional $30 million for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.

The Caribbean Community, a body that groups West Indian nations, says the 1996 act has helped trigger a rise in violent crime within its borders because criminals have been sent back often with little connection to their home countries.

"A number of these people that are being sent back to the Caribbean have never been part of the Caribbean at all," having left young, Stuart said.

Precise figures for the numbers deported were not immediately available.

(Editing by Matthew Bigg and Eric Walsh)

http://www.reuters.com/article/domestic ... 5I20090524

he said, adding that Washington was giving an additional $30 million for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.

How can they do this without permission from the taxpayers?
I'm sick and tired of giving to others! We need it here!

Originally Posted by WorriedAmerican

he said, adding that Washington was giving an additional $30 million for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.

How can they do this without permission from the taxpayers?
I'm sick and tired of giving to others! We need it here!

And Obama claims we are out of money.

The rest of the world has the idea America is the "Dumping Ground" for their unwanted citizens ??

It is time we elect politicians with "BackBones" who respect the rights of Americans above all others which has not been the case for a long time and the rest of the world knows it and think they can bully us !!

Originally Posted by USPatriot

The rest of the world has the idea America is the "Dumping Ground" for their unwanted citizens ?? :roll

More specifically, their criminals. Would they let criminal Americans stay in their country?

Wouldn't it be easier for the Caribbean Community to put a paw on their citizens rather than blaming us for the non-citizens sickos that end up over here.

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

Originally Posted by USPatriot

The rest of the world has the idea America is the "Dumping Ground" for their unwanted citizens ?? :roll

More specifically, their criminals. Would they let criminal Americans stay in their country?

They send their poor "Unwanted" citizens here too for Taxpayers to take care of and if we balk they scream so we give them money to shut them up.It is veiled extortion !!

Always Americans lose any way you view it because our spineless politicians are sooo PC to the detriment of those they swore to protect and serve !

Originally Posted by USPatriot

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

Originally Posted by USPatriot

The rest of the world has the idea America is the "Dumping Ground" for their unwanted citizens ?? :roll

More specifically, their criminals. Would they let criminal Americans stay in their country?

They send their poor "Unwanted" citizens here too for Taxpayers to take care of and if we balk they scream so we give them money to shut them up.It is veiled extortion !!

Always Americans lose any way you view it because our spineless politicians are sooo PC to the detriment of those they swore to protect and serve !

Castro did it more outrageously than anyone. He emptied his prisons and mental institutions and sent all of them to Miami.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by USPatriot

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

Originally Posted by USPatriot

The rest of the world has the idea America is the "Dumping Ground" for their unwanted citizens ?? :roll

More specifically, their criminals. Would they let criminal Americans stay in their country?

They send their poor "Unwanted" citizens here too for Taxpayers to take care of and if we balk they scream so we give them money to shut them up.It is veiled extortion !!

Always Americans lose any way you view it because our spineless politicians are sooo PC to the detriment of those they swore to protect and serve !

Castro did it more outrageously than anyone. He emptied his prisons and mental institutions and sent all of them to Miami.

I remember that well JohnDoe2 & we let them stay here and took care of them while at about the same time US mental hospitals were closing leaving thousands of impaired citizens with no where to go.

Why should we be responsible for the criminal element of any other country. We have enought of our own. Why do we have to help Mexico, Carribean, or any other country with their problems, we have enough of our own. I think we should become more protective and less global. We can't support the world.