U.S. deported 64 Guyanese in six months

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The United States deported more than 2000 criminals back to the Caribbean in the past six months. Sixty-four (64) of those were Guyanese, according to figures released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The figures show that, from the start of the 2011 fiscal year, from October last year to the end of March this year, 88,497 “criminal aliens” or migrants were deported to their countries of birth in Latin America and the Caribbean region.

A “criminal alien” is defined under U.S. Immigration law as a migrant who is convicted of a crime. The number sent back to Latin America alone stood at 86,469, while 2,028 were sent back to the Caribbean. Of those sent back to the Caribbean, 1,066 were repatriated to the Dominican Republic, 528 were returned to Jamaica, and 125 were returned to Trinidad and Tobago.

Belize received 74 repatriated country- men, followed by The Bahamas with 65, and Guyana with 64. So far for this fiscal year, 50 Arubans have been repatriated, and 31 Haitians have been sent back to the earthquake ravaged Haiti. Other Caribbean nations received far less criminal deportees.

Cuba received 20 in the past six months, Barbados 11, the Commonwealth of Dominica 10, St Lucia seven, and Antigua five. Four persons were sent back to Bermuda, while St Kitts received three; and two each were returned to Suriname, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands. The figures show that Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands each received one criminal deportee. The biggest receiver of criminal migrants was Mexico, with 70,874 deported as at March 28 this year. (CMC)

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