Is Guyana taking the backtracking issue lightly?

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,
The time is long gone for some action to be taken regarding backtracking allegations.
Quite a few are still involved in the act, and I find that ignoring those purportedly involved, or even side-stepping the issue as such, to be quite distasteful and complacent. It is not so in other places, and authorities have been at it for quite some time now.
In the UK, a 30-year-old man was charged with facilitating the entry of illegal immigrants. He was arrested at his home by the National Crime Squad in 2003. His charges were many: being concerned in the facilitation of an illegal immigrant into the UK, conspiring with others to facilitate the entry of illegal immigrants, and facilitating illegal immigrants to remain in the UK. Illegal immigration is a violation of the sovereignty of a nation and raises many political, economic and social issues. It has in fact become a source of major controversy in developed and developing countries.
Recently, things went sour during an airport pick up late last year in the U. S. when a Nashville man had gone with an assigned female driver, to pick up his sister-in-law, who illegally came from Mexico. The woman demanded an extra US$ 750 for the job, but the man refused, and the woman drove away in a passenger van with 19 other people.
The man then called law enforcement, the vehicle was intercepted, and now the matter is before the court: federal charges have been filed in the U. S. District Court of Middle Tennessee for allegedly harbouring illegal aliens.
In Guyana, these new waves of backtracking allegations must not go unnoticed and unchecked. Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados appear to be major transit points. Guyana has been repeatedly receiving negative ratings from the United States government with regard to human smuggling.
My view is that not only the facilitator, but the actual people seeking illegal entry into, or working illegally in, another country must be prosecuted. Is Guyana taking this issue too lightly?

Yours sincerely,
Christopher Morris

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