Well, the other foot had to drop sooner or later, innit?? In this case your Eyewitness is talking about the hard line the Trump administration – actually Trump himself! – has taken to rid their country of illegal immigrants. We’d been informed by their Secretary of State himself – “little Marco” who’d stooped low to conquer Trump’s confidence! – that we’d have to take back our share of American undesirables. Our government agreed fervently – no so much because of our responsibilities to our citizens as touted – but out of an abundance of caution not to p*ss off Trump!!
But after all the Sturm and Drang about the 11 million plus illegals who’d be swooped up like in a modern-day Rapture and dropped in one fell swoop into the heavens of their original homelands, the “returnees” are being sent back in dribs and drabs. Our first drib amounted to seven persons with criminal records in the US – ranging from molestation of a minor and sexual assault to murder and disorderly conduct. So with all the hoopla about innocent immigrant residents being hauled in, arrested and summarily expelled it looks like -in our case at least – the reports have been greatly exaggerated!!
From what was released quite early in the day about the numbers of immigrant offenders from across the world on the American books, it was stated that 1,236 were from Guyana. With all the scare stories of ICE raids and pitched battles between protestors and US Marines and National Guardsmen, most of the deportations – including ours – are from these low hanging fruits!! Looks like Trump has reversed Teddy Roosevelt’s dictum into “Talk loudly and carry a small stick”!!
Anyhow, now that we’ve received our not so magnificent seven into our – and their – country; what are we gonna do?? Well about a decade ago, your Eyewitness remembers that – faced with some convicted US deportees who’d – not surprisingly – reverted to their criminal ways – the authorities had placed regulations on the books that allowed the police to place the deportees on parole. Meaning they had to report at specified times to specified police stations so they could be monitored. Your Eyewitness notes that the deportees were taken to CID headquarters and he suggests the parole program be reinstituted AT ONCE.
After all, these deportees’ criminal convictions range from molestation of a minor and sexual assault to murder and disorderly conduct. And we know from our experiences that – especially with the former – the crime becomes ingrained. Our crime rates are already too high – and we certainly don’t need no foreign techniques be introduced!!
After all, we gotta have a system in place to deal with the other 1229 criminals coming down the chute!!
…unemployment
For years, there’s been a great focus on our unemployment rate. And why not? Isn’t it when folks have jobs t hey earn wages and salaries this allows them to satisfy their needs – and hopefully most of their wants? Well, while might very well be so, unemployment itself is a bit more complicated – and this has been brought to the fore recently.
“Unemployment” actually “refers to a situation where a person actively searches for employment but is unable to find work.” The key point is not that some people ain’t working – and so, “unemployed” but they must actually be LOOKING for a job!! So in Guyana, when it’s pointed out that there are thousands and thousands of jobs available – bu no one’s willing to take them we gotta accept the government’s and Private Sector’s assertion that we don’t have an “unemployment” problem!!
And i’s not just the odd jobs that go begging. Take for eg, there’s a shortage of cane-cutters – while some are earning $32,000 DAILY!!
…racist politicians
After a WPA member – on a party platform – called Indian Guyanese’ ancestors the scum of India who don’t deserve Guyana’s citizenship, PNC Indian members who challenged that were dubbed “slave catchers”!! And PNC leader Norton supports that!!
