Us deportations assailed.(THE REGION)

0 Comments | Caribbean Update, July, 2009

The United States should review its policy on deporting West Indian criminals back to their home countries, Caribbean nations told US Attorney General Eric Holder at a meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados, reports Reuters (May 24, 2009):

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 as a staging post for illicit drugs bound for the US. Large numbers of people migrate from the West Indies to the US each year seeking education and jobs. But under a 1996 US law, criminals convicted of offenses ranging from murder to shoplifting as well as drug infractions can face deportation from the US;

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