No serious effort at deportation

It seems no real focus has been placed on this matter and yes, the taxpayers are the ones who bear these bills.

There is also an issue whereby these illegal immigrants usually state they did not commit any crime in TT. Really? Isn’t a crime when you break a law? Did they not break our immigration laws? Yes, they may not have committed any crime of violence like murder, robbery etc but they broke our laws. However, the punishment is deportation and this we must do promptly.

Our current deportation backlog points to a much larger problem of the criminal justice system where there are long delays in investigations, trials, sentencing etc. Just look at the Remand Yard situation and you will see great similarities with some people are awaiting trials for over ten years. We need systemic changes to how things are done otherwise we will be spinning top in mud, as they say.

IAN RAMDHANIE via email