Deportees a scourge on TT

I am an uncompromising proponent of a bill to curtail unrestricted criminal activities perpetrated by deportees flushed out of US and Canada prisons and career criminals taken off the streets for minor offences, who are being dumped on the shores of TT. They may be rightly categorised as citizens, but they are all — “undesirable citizens” — a scourge on TT.

A distinction should be made between these hard-core career criminals and those deported for overstaying the time allotted to them in the US and Canada.

The latter should be allowed back into the society unhindered, but their counterparts, the career criminals should all be placed on “extended parole” and be made to report to their respective precincts on a regular basis. They should also be made to account for their expensive cars and palatial homes, through the amendment of our tax codes — the invocation of forced disclosures for the purpose of proof to support any opulent lifestyle. If these tax codes are already part of the law; they should now be stringently enforced.

My advocacy for a deportee-bill, was sparked by the correlation between the influx of mass deportees in the region and the upsurge in criminal activities. TT and Jamaica are most severely affected by this trend, followed closely by Barbados and Guyana. We are all well aware that no country deports law-abiding, gainfully employed immigrants. Even if they are illegal immigrants.

We should treat deportees, with the same fervour and passion as we do “Carnival.” The enactment of a bill to control the unrestricted flow of these undesirables to our shores, will go a long way in improving the quality of life of the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.