He Ministry of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago has arranged that at least 200 Venezuelan migrants be located in a Immigration Detention Center for your deportationfollowing orders from the Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
The measure had been proposed by Persad-Bissessar as part of his immigration policybut it was until Monday that Videsh Maharajpermanent secretary of the ministry, sent the request in which he details that all illegal migrants would be concentrated before being deported.
According to Maharaj, the undocumented They will not be previously supervised by the authorities, but will be deported en masse as a immigration exercise.
They blame the previous administration
He August 15journalists asked Persad-Bissessar about fulfilling his immigration promise, to which he responded that “soon“.
Likewise, Persad-Bissessar blamed the previous administration for not having faced the situation of illegal migration, linking it with the crime in the country. In his words: “That’s what they allowed to happen for the past ten years. There was no attempt for our ancestors to separate those Venezuelan immigrants who legitimately escaped from their country from those who came here with criminal intentions.“.
In recent weeks, the relations between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago have been strained due to rejection and supportrespectively, to the presence of United States military equipment in the Caribbean Sea to stop vessels allegedly belonging to drug traffickers.
Trinidad and Tobago allowed the robbery of a US Navy destroyer on Sunday to carry out military exercisescoinciding with the US deployment in the region.
In response, Nicolas Maduro authorized the “immediate” suspension of gas agreements with Trinidad and Tobagodenouncing what he considered a “threat” of Persad-Bissessar to turn the island country into “the aircraft carrier” of the United States against South America.
