NEARLY 100 Haitian migrants were repatriated on Thursday.
The group consisted of 67 men, 22 women, and six minors who were repatriated from New Providence to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Department of Immigration said.
A joint team of officers from the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and the Immigration Department, assisted by a volunteer from the Bahamas Red Cross Society, escorted this group.
“Senior Immigration Officer Wyberg Brown successfully led the escort onboard a Bahamasair charter flight with all Ministry of Health COVID-19 protocols strictly enforced, as the health, welfare, and safety of our officers, law enforcement counterparts, and migrants remain our top priority in this COVID-19 environment,” the department said.
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tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
Absolutely pathetic! The total number of repatriations in any given year is far below the number of new illegal immigrants arriving each year. We have well over a thousand illegal immigrants arriving each and every year. Repatriating only a few hundred of them each year 'for show' is truly a sad joke.
This Minnis led FNM administration, like previous PLP and FNM administrations alike, is not the least bit serious about addressing the ongoing invasion of our country by overwhelming numbers of illegal immigrants and their many offspring. I'm fully convinced now that Minnis, Bannister and Johnson are doing nothing more than putting on a meaningless pre-election 'pretense' of their toughness on illegal immigration to try win votes.
DDK 2 years, 11 months ago
Should have thought WELL over a thousand!!
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