Jamaica has highest number of illegal immigrants in Trinidad says Trinidad's Minister of National Security...

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 | 1:52 AM  
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - There is no discrimination in the treatment of African illegal immigrants, National Security Minister Gary Griffith said yesterday.
He said there was absolutely no degree of profiling or prejudice by authorities in dealing with illegal immigrants.
Trinidad's Minister of National Security - Gary Griffith
“If you are an illegal immigrant, whether you are from African, the Caribbean or Mars, you are breaking the law and all I am doing as Minister is ensuring that the policy (with respect to illegal immigrants) is adhered to and enforced,” he said.
Griffith said there were 131 illegal immigrants at the Detention Centre, of which 23, or 17 per cent, are Africans (the bulk coming from Nigeria (14) and Ghana (7).
He said Jamaica made up the highest number (46 per cent of the 131) and Guyanese (23 per cent). The rest of those detained came from Venezuela, Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Pakistan, Barbados, Romania, Vietnam, Portugal, Senegal and Dominica.
He was responding to a release issued by the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago which spoke of the plight of African illegal immigrants at the Immigration Detention Centre in Aripo and which urged Government to review its policy with respect to the deportation on Africans at the Centre in the light of Griffith’s statements about an “amnesty” to illegal immigrants. more

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