Deportation Thread.

[Flex]

1,593 deportees let loose.
By: Francis Joseph (Newsday).

Within the past seven years, 1,593 Trinidad and Tobago nationals were deported from the United States after committing violent crimes such as unlawful killing, kidnapping, robbery, grand larceny and fraud.
And these persons, some of whom have served time in America’s largest and most violent prisons, are walking free on the streets of TT.
The TT nationals were among 36,000 criminals deported to the Caribbean as the United States tries to get rid of unwanted elements in certain high-risk cities of that country, the Department of Homeland Security revealed yesterday.
The US is also trying to weed out persons who may be inclined to commit terrorist acts after September 11, 2001.
The deportees, according to local police officials, are being blamed for the upsurge in criminal activity over the last five years in Trinidad. Police believe that the deportees are responsible for the increase in murders, gangland type crimes, kidnapping, and robbery associated with violence.
The TT nationals were described as non-US citizens who committed crimes while living illegally in the United States or as greencard holders. They travelled to the US and were allowed to stay for short periods ranging from three to six months. But they filtered into the black communities in certain cities and stayed illegally, only to be caught up in criminal activitity.
But not all convicted TT nationals have been deported. Keith Andre Glaude was jailed for two years in 2002 for his role in attempting to export guns to Trinidad in 2001. For his decision to testify in a Fort Lauderdale Court against top ranking Jamaat-al-Muslimeen member Lance Small in 2005, Glaude was allowed to remain in the US.
Another Trinidadian who gave evidence at the same trial, was also convicted in the US, deported, but sneaked back in at a later stage. He too, was allowed to stay in the US as a result of his testimony against Small.
But senior local police sources admitted that while the names of the deportees are told to them by the US, there is no monitoring system in Trinidad and Tobago to keep an eye on these nationals.
As a result, they just filter back into the TT system, enhance criminal activity by “teaching” the locals how crimes should be committed and “boldfacedly” commit daylight crimes, ignorant to the presence of police, army patrols and skyships.
A senior police officer said it was only when deportees were returning to “paradise” that kidnappings surged. He felt that Government should consider using an electronic monitor on these deportees for a certain period after their arrival so the local authorities would be able to find them.
Efforts to reach Commissioner of Police Trevor Paul for comment yesterday proved futile while National Security Minister Martin Joseph promised to release a statement to Newsday “soon.”
The Spanish-speaking nation of the Dominican Republic, located next to Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, topped the Caribbean deportee scale with a whopping 17,527 or almost half the number of deportees sent back during the seven-year stretch.
Jamaica, which according to a recent report tabled in that country’s parliament by the island’s Minister of National Security is facing a significant rise in horrendous violent crime because of deportees, was second.
They received a massive 11,455 criminal aliens since 1998, or almost one third of the deportees. The largest number was sent back in 2004; a whopping 1,648.

[AB.Trini]

GASH dem and LIGHT them

ooh oh LORD
a di living  once more fur meh country
they really don't know
cyaah cool enuh cyaah watah dung enuh
naah compromise nuh time enuh
verse:1
big man like …them….
kidnapping   little people
all them man like he drives meh crazy
mess up all the island  money
a big crime like that
hiding and doing things to make yuh mad sick and crazy
but when everyone hol yuh
nuh if nor nuh but nuh badda tell almighty bout maybe
chorus:
gash dem and light dem
for all the negative vibes weh dem a bring
gash dem and light dem
mi come fi mash up and wreck up dem senseless actions
gash dem and light dem
bwoie affi reverse wid dem bag a gun ting
gash dem and light dem
stand guard and come out a di wages of sin
verse:2
yuh love yuh life si dung and pawk it
and stop carry watah inna baaskit
suh mi affi draw fi all di MOSES law
eye fi a eye a dat nuff a onuh waah
onuh a push it till blood stawt draw
all di wrongs bwoie yuh have to pay fah
chorus:
gash dem and light dem
for all the negative vibes weh dem a bring
gash dem and light dem
mi come fi mash up and wreck up dem senseless actions
gash dem and light dem
bwoie affi reverse wid dem
gash dem and light dem
stand guard and come out a di wages of sin
verse:3
dunce bat yuh nuh si seh yuh nuh smawt
come a tell mi seh yuh don't have nuh hawt
a long time wi a preach and a talk
and a tell yuh gi di politics a walk
but yuh a tell mi yuh nuh fraid fi pop it off
caah yuh love hear di big dog a bawk

[Trini _2026]

Within the past seven years, 1,593 Trinidad and Tobago nationals were deported from the United States after committing violent crimes such as unlawful killing, kidnapping, robbery, grand larceny and fraud.

they sure all ah them commit violent acts??

[AB.Trini]

Ah tired ah hearing people blaming goverbnment fuh everything wrong under the sun; it eh like the previous government did any better; it doh make it easy when the previous  government leader declares that his platform is based on'race' it doh make it easy when ah man says he go sleep with the devil tuh get power. Could there be other factors that contribute to the rise in crime?

By Yvonne Baboolal

Between 1998 and 2005, 2,655 deportees from the United States have played a part in escalating crime and increased homelessness in T&T.

This finding was revealed by Repatriate & Relief International Inc, a US-based non-profit organisation that assists immigrant populations around the world.

The group, which has links with the local chapter of Prison Ministries International, an inter-faith organisation, made the disclosure in a proposal submitted to the Government for a deportee re-integration and family support programme.

The group predicts that the wave of deportation will increase, as will the attendant problems, and noted that between 1998 and 2005, some 53,464 deportees were absorbed by leading Caribbean countries:

* Dominican Republic 26,509

* Jamaica 16,085

* T&T 2,655

* Guyana 2,283

* Barbados 589

Progressive increase

Tracing the beginning of the US wave of deportation from the 1996 passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act by the US Congress, the group pointed to a a reclassification of former misdemeanours, which have now become deportable offences, and consequently, a dramatic increase in the deportation of both illegal and legal US residents.

The group said in 1994, the total deportations by the US Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) was only 45,364, but by 1997, the INS, for the first time, deported more than 100,000 “aliens.”

“The trend increased four-fold in 2000 with the number of deportees amounting to 184,000,” said the group, with a large number of these deportees coming from Mexico and Central and South America.

The group said deportees had played a part in increased crime and homelessness in T&T, and felt that a transition programme to integrate deportees into the society would benefit T&T.

“The vast majority of individuals deported to T&T are totally unprepared to re-integrate into their native society,” the proposal said.

“Many of them migrated from T&T during infancy and no longer have social, cultural or economic ties to the country.

“They have become foreigners to their own country.

“The result has been increased homelessness and crime in the receiving country, as some deportees resort to crime and other illegal activities as a means of survival.”

The proposal noted that the prospect of a life separated from wives, husbands, children and family often resulted in a depressed and angry individual returning to the shores of his birth.

The group also claimed that one of the results of increased deportation was the formation of an international crime network.

Some proposals

* The T&T Deportee Re-integration and Family Support Programme will provide pre- and post-deportation counselling

* Assistance to families of deportees left behind

* Temporary housing assistance for returning deportees

* Education and job-training

* Temporary and permanent employment

Repatriate & Relief Inc has presented its proposal to the governments of Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis and Grenada.

The T&T deportee programme is planned as a pilot one and, if successful, will be used as a model in other countries.

[Pointman]

I'd love to see the figures of how many illegals from Eastern Europe and Asia were deported during the same time period

[Trini _2026]

Jamaica Again Tops U.S. Deportation List
By Felicia Persaud

Washington, April 1: Latest deportation figures out of the new U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services reveal that almost ten thousand immigrants, both legal and undocumented, were deported to the Caribbean in fiscal year 2002, up from over 7,000 in 2001.
For the English-speaking Caribbean, Jamaica once again receiving the highest number of deportees, with a whopping 2,122, up from 2,017 in 2001. The island was also again among the top countries globally to receive deportees. They were followed way behind by Trinidad and Tobago, which was forced to take back 314 of their nationals in 2002 while. Guyana received the third highest number, 222.
One hundred and ninety-three deportees were sent home to the Bahamas and 55 to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Considering the land mass and population of these islands, the number is significant.
Fifty-one immigrants were sent home to Barbados and 36 to the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda. Thirty-four and thirty-one were deported back to St. Lucia and Dominica respectively while Grenada received 28 and St. Kitts, 23.
Other English-speaking Caribbean islands to receive deportees included the British Virgin Island with 14, Bermuda, 12, Turks & Caicos, 6, the Cayman Islands. 3, Aruba, 2 and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1.
For the non-English speaking territories, the Dominican Republic topped the list with 3,225 followed closely by Cuba with 2,750 and Haiti with 1,058. Thirteen immigrants were sent back to the Netherland Antilles while Guadeloupe received 3 and Martinique and Puerto Rico, one each. The median age of the deported aliens was 28.
Most of the deportees were legal immigrants who had committed crimes and served their time in U.S. jails before being shipped back to their native land. Jamaica again topped the list for the English-speaking territories with 1,517, followed less closely by Guyana with 103 and Trinidad with 78. Deportation of criminal elements back into these countries has been blamed almost exclusively for the rising crime rates in those societies. Barbados and The Bahamas each received 27 and 23 criminal aliens, respectively.
For the non-English speaking territories, the Dominican Republic topped the list again with 784 criminal deportees followed by Cuba with 395 and Haiti with 219. All other Caribbean countries received less than 15, with Aruba, the Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Turks & Caicos and the U.S. Virgin Islands receiving only 1 each. The most common crime was drug-related.
Other deportees included those who had overstayed visitor's visas, those who had entered the U.S. without inspection or via the 'backtrack,' those who has been in-transit in the country without a visa and crewmen, temporary workers, students, stowaways and other non-immigrants.
Four-hundred and forty five visitors were deported back to Jamaica, the largest number for the entire region, both English and non-English speaking. The Dominican Republic followed with 162 and Trinidad, 151. All other countries received less than one hundred deportees with Bahamas and Haiti receiving the highest in this category: 89 and 78, respectively. Guyana followed with 51 and Cuba 38.
Over 3,000 Cubans and nationals of the Dominican Republic were sent back because of entering the U.S. without inspection or through the 'backtrack.' Six hundred and seventy eight Haitians were also deported because of committing this crime as well as 424 Jamaicans and only 56 Bahamians. Less than fifty from Guyana were returned followed by Trinidad with 38. All other countries received only a small number of deportees in this category.
Aliens who entered the U.S. as a crewman, student, temporary worker or stowaway, and were eventually deported, only accounted for a small percentage. The highest number for all categories were sent back to the Dominican Republic, followed by Jamaica. All other countries received next to none.
Immigration agents detained a total of 202,000 aliens from around the globe in the past fiscal year. Of that number, a whopping 103,000 had criminal records.

[ChipChipSilver]

Wayyy boy, big money passing just to have de Caribbean govts fight dey own battle.



Dollars for deportees

T&T, Caribbean govts get US help
 
   
Charles S Shapiro

Offenders

A recent Caricom study found almost 30,000 criminal offenders had been deported to Guyana, Jamaica, and T&T between 1990 and 2005.
More than 17,000 had been deported for drug offences; almost 1,800 for possession of illegal firearms, and more than 600 for murder.
The United States is to provide millions of dollars to Caribbean governments including T&T to help them reintegrate people deported from the US for criminal offences.

And Washington is to sign an agreement with the Caribbean, possibly within the next two months, to share information on the deportees and to set up social programmes for them in the region.

This was disclosed during a Congressional hearing in Washington on Tuesday during which Caribbean and Latin American government representatives testified about the impact the US criminal deportees programme was having on their societies.

Making the lead presentation for the Caribbean, Anne Marie Barnes, chief technical director in Jamaica’s National Security ministry, warned about the impact on security in the region.

“The mass deportation of criminal offenders to the Caribbean and Latin America constitutes one of the greatest threats to security in the region,” she said.

Ever since the US started the criminal deportees programme in 1997, Caribbean governments have been claiming that many of the deportees had no ties with their countries—having lived most of their lives in the US.

They have also been arguing that the deportees were contributing to a rise in crime in the region.

Barnes quoted from a recent Caricom study showing that “many deported persons continue to engage in crime subsequent to their deportation. For example, deported persons in T&T were over three times more likely to be arrested than the average for the general population.”

Also testifying before the sub-committee was Charles S Shapiro, principal deputy assistant secretary of the State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. He disclosed that the Caribbean Community (Caricom) had requested assistance with resettlement and reintegration of deportees.

He said the bureau intended to use a pilot project in Haiti being run by the International Organisation for Migration as a model for reintegration in other Caricom countries in the future.

The programme provides deportee reintegration services, including counselling, vocational training, skills development and micro-credit lending,

“We are currently in discussions with Caricom members on the next steps and what adaptations may be needed to the model programme so that it is useful to other nations,” said Shapiro.

A recent Caricom study found that almost 30,000 criminal offenders had been deported to Guyana, Jamaica, and T&T between 1990 and 2005.

More than 17,000 had been deported for drug offences; almost 1,800 for possession of illegal firearms, and more than 600 for murder.

More than seventy-five per cent of all criminal deportations to the region are sent back from the US.

In his testimony, Gary Mead, assistant director for management, Office of Detention and Removal Operations of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit, revealed that at least 45 Jamaicans a month are sent back from the US, while 50 and 70, respectively, are returned every two weeks to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

He said for fiscal 2006, 1,426 criminal migrants were deported to Jamaica while 2,805 were sent back to the DR.

The two countries have received the highest number of deportees from the US annually since the criminal deportation programme began.
 
 

[asylumseeker]

"They probably become technical advisers to other criminals ..."

Caribbean swamped with U.S. deportees   
     
  By Bert Wilkinson

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 31 (IPS) - In 1999, a Jamaican convict was deported to Guyana from the U.S. State of Texas after assuming the identity of a Guyanese mechanic who had lost his residency card on the streets far away in New York months earlier.

But the fact that he had impersonated a Guyanese and ended up on a continent 1,000 miles from home was not the issue that angered Caribbean governments. Rather, it was that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) had exerted so much pressure on the Guyanese embassy that it finally issued James Dean Collins -- who claimed to be Edgar Garfield Gibbons of Guyana -- with travel papers that left him stranded in police detention for more than a year before his true identity was confirmed and marshals escorted him back to a U.S. jail.

Though the debacle has since subsided, governments point to that and other notorious cases as they plead with the George W. Bush administration to devise a better way to deal with the deportation of Caribbean nationals in the U.S.

"We want to know when they are coming, who they are and would like them to have access to financial and other resources before they are sent back destitute," said Caribbean trade bloc spokesman Leonard Robertson. "Our governments have been asking for this for years."

The issue of ad hoc deportation of Caribbean nationals from the U.S. has been on the front burner for both the Bush administration and regional governments in recent months.

Just last week, the Western Hemisphere subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives held special hearings on the deportation question following meetings between regional leaders and President Bush in Washington in late June. Chaired by New York Democrat Eliot Engels, the hearings were a direct result of the Jun. 20 summit on Capitol Hill.

Caribbean leaders pointed to a study by Jamaican academic Annmarie Barnes showing that three of the 15 Caricom nations -- Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana -- had absorbed a staggering 30,000 deportees between 1990 and 2005.

The presence of returned killers, drug dealers, armed robbers and rapists, among others, has contributed significantly to rising crime in the Caribbean, forcing some governments to hire British law enforcement experts to help beat back the scourge, authorities say.

Of the 30,000, 17,000 have been convicted for drug trafficking, 600 for murder and 1,800 for illegal gun possession. "The United States is responsible for more than 75 percent of all criminal deportations to the region," according to Barnes' study.

However, not all deportees have committed violent, or even serious crimes.

The committee also heard testimony from rights groups and legislators like Charlie Rangel of New York, who was a special guest at the early July summit of Caribbean leaders in Barbados.

Calling on the U.S. to "have a heart", Alison Parker of Human Rights Watch deemed the U.S. policy of deporting aliens after serving time for felonies and even misdemeanors as being "far out of step" with international standards.

"Human rights law recognises that the privilege of living in any country as a non-citizen may be conditional upon obeying that country's laws. However, a country like the United States cannot withdraw that privilege without protecting the human rights of the immigrants it previously allowed to enter," she argued.

She wants Congress to reinstate rules allowing judges discretion in cases where crimes are minor and family connections strong.

"Families have been torn apart because of a single, even minor, misstep such as shoplifting or drug possession," Parker said.

Officials from all sides say that the hearings, the summit and other meetings with U.S. officials indicate that strides have been made in recent months to tackle what leaders say is one of the most vexing policy issues with the U.S.

Officials are considering replicating a deportee pilot programme now in place in Haiti, in which returnees are assisted financially with resettlement and helped to start micro-enterprises rather than falling under the sway of drug traffickers and other criminal gangs.

"They are looking to see if that can be applied in the region," said trade bloc spokesman Robertson.

In calculating the proportionate effect of deportation, Barnes reasoned that with a combined population of less than five million people in Guyana, Trinidad and Jamaica, the impact of "this relocation of criminal offenders would be roughly equivalent to the influx, into the United States, of more than one million convicted drug offenders, and close to 40,000 convicted murderers."

Trinidad Cabinet Minister Conrad Enill says better communication with U.S. authorities is key to a successful programme.

"What we ask is, if you're sending them back, we need to know beforehand so we could track them and know where they are. If deportees are coming, we need to be able to welcome them properly," he stressed.

Jamaican government spokesman Carlton Davis says there is little doubt deportees contribute to serious crime.

"When they come they are free, and a study shows that there is a strong correlation between deportation and violent crime. We need serious discussion as to the systems that enable us to manage this inflow of people who, I am told, have no family. They probably become 'technical advisers' (to other criminals). I am not saying that they are the cause of our problems, but it is a factor," he said.

Jamaica absorbed 530 convicted murderers in 2005 alone, a figure officials say is too much for any small country to bear. (IPS
 

[dcs]

Wayyy boy, big money passing

But they didn't say exactly how much...or the currency.

Anyway working with them on this might end up being more valuable than cash to be honest.

[truetrini]

Deportee in battle with US Embassy
Yvonne Baboolal | 8:20 pm
Published: February 7th, 2009

Craig Cruickshank
Yvonne Baboolal | 8:20 pm

He stayed in houses where he had to pick which floorboard to walk on; reached on the brink of homelessness and starvation and developed diabetes. This has been the ordeal of 31-year-old Craig Cruickshank, since he was deported to Trinidad and Tobago eight years ago, at age 23.

Cruickshank, who told the Sunday Guardian, last Tuesday, that he was an “active Christian,” is claiming he was deported on trivial charges, which were later dropped in an American court. He claims he is entitled to return to the United States, where his “home, his life, his love” are, and has been on a determined drive to do so. “I was a one-year-old baby when my parents took me to Brooklyn, New York, to live. “Settling in T&T was a shock; I’ve never been able to adjust. “The social life, the mentality, the way the system operates...it’s something I can’t get accustomed to.” But attempts to return home are blocked by the US Embassy in Port-of-Spain, he claims.

Cruickshank said his ordeal began at age 19, while living with his parents and sister in Florida, to where they had moved. “My sister and I were having a normal sibling quarrel, and someone from the neighbourhood called the police. “The police tried to arrest me, but I said I wasn’t going anywhere.
“They arrested me for resisting arrest with violence and obstruction, and took me to the Broward County Jail. “Not knowing better, I took a no contest plea just to get out. This meant I pleaded guilty.

“I was put on probation and was later arrested for a non-violent violation and put in Dade County Jail in Miami. “While there, the probation officer recommended that I be imprisoned for the original charges of resisting arrest. “I was sentenced to 27 months at the South Florida Regional Centre.” Close to the end of his stay in prison, Cruickshank said he got a letter from the INS, stating that he was to be deported to T&T. “They had revamped the deportation act and could deport you for just about anything. “They will deport you even after you paid the time for the crime, no matter how small, if you did two years and more.”

Cruickshank said Florida judges kicked out against the harshness of the new deportation law, and advised that those who had opted to plead guilty, and and advised that those who had opted to plead guilty, and were not informed that deportation was one of the consequences, could apply for a rehearing. “While in prison, I wrote up my motion requesting the case be reopened, and for my plea to be changed to a not guilty one. “The following week, they moved me to another jail, way up north Pennsylvania, and a couple months after, on July 29, 2000, they deported me.” Cruickshank stayed with elderly grandmothers in Cocoyea and Palo Seco before moving out on his own. “The reception in T&T wasn’t good. I didn’t realise there was so much dislike here for deportees.

“I moved from one shack to another, and lived in places where I had to pick and choose which floorboards to step on. “I found out I had diabetes while doing a medical, which could be stress-related. I am now on insulin.” Cruickshank said he did a variety of jobs, including construction, sales, network marketing, commercial cleaning and security. On February 15, 2002, he won his motion for a rehearing in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Court in Broward County. Judge Geoffrey D Cohen, in a letter on the same day, stated: “The defendant’s plea of no contest is vacated and a plea of not guilty is entered and the matter will be scheduled for trial by jury.” A US Immigration lawyer gave Cruickshank’s parents a directive to petition to have him returned to the US with his original status—legal permanent resident.

“By 2006, the petition had gone through all the checks, balances, filters and screens in the US, and the petition was sent to the US Embassy here for final screening,” Cruickshank related. He said, based on advice, he bought a ticket and boarded an aeroplane bound for Miami on December 18, last year, but was arrested and sent back to T&T. Last month, he applied to the embassy for a visa to leave the country. Phillip Beekman from the American Consular Office, in a letter to Cruickshank on January 7, told him he was found “ineligible” for a visa under the INS Act. Beekman cited “missing documents,” “moral turpitude” and “ordered deported twice” as reasons. “Why are they not allowing me to go back home. I aim to get answers from them,” Cruickshank vowed. “This is one case they know they messed up and they’re afraid of the consequences.”

[just cool]

Deportee in battle with US Embassy
Yvonne Baboolal | 8:20 pm
Published: February 7th, 2009

Craig Cruickshank
Yvonne Baboolal | 8:20 pm

He stayed in houses where he had to pick which floorboard to walk on; reached on the brink of homelessness and starvation and developed diabetes. This has been the ordeal of 31-year-old Craig Cruickshank, since he was deported to Trinidad and Tobago eight years ago, at age 23.

Cruickshank, who told the Sunday Guardian, last Tuesday, that he was an “active Christian,” is claiming he was deported on trivial charges, which were later dropped in an American court. He claims he is entitled to return to the United States, where his “home, his life, his love” are, and has been on a determined drive to do so. “I was a one-year-old baby when my parents took me to Brooklyn, New York, to live. “Settling in T&T was a shock; I’ve never been able to adjust. “The social life, the mentality, the way the system operates...it’s something I can’t get accustomed to.” But attempts to return home are blocked by the US Embassy in Port-of-Spain, he claims.

Cruickshank said his ordeal began at age 19, while living with his parents and sister in Florida, to where they had moved. “My sister and I were having a normal sibling quarrel, and someone from the neighbourhood called the police. “The police tried to arrest me, but I said I wasn’t going anywhere.
“They arrested me for resisting arrest with violence and obstruction, and took me to the Broward County Jail. “Not knowing better, I took a no contest plea just to get out. This meant I pleaded guilty.

“I was put on probation and was later arrested for a non-violent violation and put in Dade County Jail in Miami. “While there, the probation officer recommended that I be imprisoned for the original charges of resisting arrest. “I was sentenced to 27 months at the South Florida Regional Centre.” Close to the end of his stay in prison, Cruickshank said he got a letter from the INS, stating that he was to be deported to T&T. “They had revamped the deportation act and could deport you for just about anything. “They will deport you even after you paid the time for the crime, no matter how small, if you did two years and more.”

Cruickshank said Florida judges kicked out against the harshness of the new deportation law, and advised that those who had opted to plead guilty, and and advised that those who had opted to plead guilty, and were not informed that deportation was one of the consequences, could apply for a rehearing. “While in prison, I wrote up my motion requesting the case be reopened, and for my plea to be changed to a not guilty one. “The following week, they moved me to another jail, way up north Pennsylvania, and a couple months after, on July 29, 2000, they deported me.” Cruickshank stayed with elderly grandmothers in Cocoyea and Palo Seco before moving out on his own. “The reception in T&T wasn’t good. I didn’t realise there was so much dislike here for deportees.

“I moved from one shack to another, and lived in places where I had to pick and choose which floorboards to step on. “I found out I had diabetes while doing a medical, which could be stress-related. I am now on insulin.” Cruickshank said he did a variety of jobs, including construction, sales, network marketing, commercial cleaning and security. On February 15, 2002, he won his motion for a rehearing in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Court in Broward County. Judge Geoffrey D Cohen, in a letter on the same day, stated: “The defendant’s plea of no contest is vacated and a plea of not guilty is entered and the matter will be scheduled for trial by jury.” A US Immigration lawyer gave Cruickshank’s parents a directive to petition to have him returned to the US with his original status—legal permanent resident.

“By 2006, the petition had gone through all the checks, balances, filters and screens in the US, and the petition was sent to the US Embassy here for final screening,” Cruickshank related. He said, based on advice, he bought a ticket and boarded an aeroplane bound for Miami on December 18, last year, but was arrested and sent back to T&T. Last month, he applied to the embassy for a visa to leave the country. Phillip Beekman from the American Consular Office, in a letter to Cruickshank on January 7, told him he was found “ineligible” for a visa under the INS Act. Beekman cited “missing documents,” “moral turpitude” and “ordered deported twice” as reasons. “Why are they not allowing me to go back home. I aim to get answers from them,” Cruickshank vowed. “This is one case they know they messed up and they’re afraid of the consequences.”

That's real tough though. could you imagine growing up in ah country all yuh life and after 22 yrs getting deported to ah place yuh don't know @ all,after being there before yuh knew yuh self. stuueeepppss

i find that law most unusual and not to mention sadening, but that's just my opinion. i hope president Obama revisit that law and amend it.

to many hard working tax payers got deported for minor infringments, from taffic violations to domestic disputes.

[capodetutticapi]

sometimes them domestic disputes does end up in murder.

[TriniCana]

Now this is his story, i'm sure the Embassy has something different to say.

The brink of homelessness and starvation and developed diabetes <--------you think the Americanas want you back in dey land How them know you ain't go try out for the trivial charges again.

Ya hadda full out ah 5 page folder from which hole you come out from, how much education ya have, how healthy ya is, financially able, no convictions before you could even reach inside to see ah immigration officer..

Ya get ah red X for at least 4 of dem questions....

No, people think they can go into another man's land and do dey same stupidness that dey will get away with in dey own homeland. US and Canada ain't Trinidad. Another reason why people does bawl when dey reach over here. Deport dey arse yes.

[WestCoast]

a son of a friend of ours here got deported back to TnT, for maryjane pocession even though he had been here for many years but did not become a citizen....if only he had become a citizen eh

[TriniCana]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

[ribbit]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

 

[just cool]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

Tigress these countries was build on the backs of immigrants, if yuh think westindians does violate their law then think again.

these russians , albanians, even ppl from the former Yugoslavia does come here and carry on way worst than caribbean ppl and nothing of the sort does happen to them.

but if ah caribbean legal immigrant only sneeze too hard in the U.S. these days , they want tuh lock yuh up and send yuh back down the road, they don't care if yuh have children or sick parents yuh caring for! ah mean it's ah real witch hunt!

i know it have bad fellas from the caribbean who does do all kinda madness in the ppl place , but to every law breaker it have ten law abiding, so why should the innocent pay for the guilty.

my great aunt always used to say "jail wasn't made tuh rippen fig" some times ah fella does leave his house good to go on ah positive mission and run in to trouble, and by defending yuh rights yuh may end up on the wrong end of the law dry so.

doh feel is just bad ppl getting deproted nah cana, it have real decent ppl who get caught up in that net, and yes! it's ah net , ah huge drag net , the only difference is they fishing for ppl of colour, but the real criminals like the russians , and the eastern europeans getting away with murder! literally and figuratively.

[capodetutticapi]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

Tigress these countries was build on the backs of immigrants, if yuh think westindians does violate their law then think again.

these russians , albanians, even ppl from the former Yugoslavia does come here and carry on way worst than caribbean ppl and nothing of the sort does happen to them.

but if ah caribbean legal immigrant only sneeze too hard in the U.S. these days , they want tuh lock yuh up and send yuh back down the road, they don't care if yuh have children or sick parents yuh caring for! ah mean it's ah real witch hunt!

i know it have bad fellas from the caribbean who does do all kinda madness in the ppl place , but to every law breaker it have ten law abiding, so why should the innocent pay for the guilty.

my great aunt always used to say "jail wasn't made tuh rippen fig" some times ah fella does leave his house good to go on ah positive mission and run in to trouble, and by defending yuh rights yuh may end up on the wrong end of the law dry so.

doh feel is just bad ppl getting deproted nah cana, it have real decent ppl who get caught up in that net, and yes! it's ah net , ah huge drag net , the only difference is they fishing for ppl of colour, but the real criminals like the russians , and the eastern europeans getting away with murder! literally and figuratively.

JC it eh have no prejudice when de yankee deportin people.all ah we (russian,mex,dutch,WI) everybody in de same boat when u not documented.i personally know 2 mex and 1 domincan get deported.

[TriniCana]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

Tigress these countries was build on the backs of immigrants, if yuh think westindians does violate their law then think again. <---------All Nationalities does violate, some more than others. How many times I hear stories of deportees coming back with BWIA aka Caribbean Airlines. Every bloody Wednesday at 7 am, at least 4 coming off a plane. And what dey do; assault, tief, rape and more recently drugs mules. 

these russians , albanians, even ppl from the former Yugoslavia does come here and carry on way worst than caribbean ppl and nothing of the sort does happen to them. <-----------I really don't care much about these people. When Caribbean people play the arse, they make it harder for those they innocent ones who following to get dey visitor visa/landed immigrant card. North America already think of us as 3rd world countries....why

but if ah caribbean legal immigrant only sneeze too hard in the U.S. these days , they want tuh lock yuh up and send yuh back down the road, they don't care if yuh have children or sick parents yuh caring for! ah mean it's ah real witch hunt! <---------Abide by dey rules and nothing will happen to you. But no my people want to drink and fight, walk bareback, take what aint' deres and shoot down the people place and lash people AND doh return after ya visitor visa EXPIRE. What you expect to happen

There are Caribbean people living in North America for donkey years that never saw what a handcuff looks like...what is the difference between them and those who getting a free plane ride home?

i know it have bad fellas from the caribbean who does do all kinda madness in the ppl place , but to every law breaker it have ten law abiding, so why should the innocent pay for the guilty. <---------- I agree with you. Peter pay for Paul - That happens everywhere including in the Caribbean

my great aunt always used to say "jail wasn't made tuh rippen fig" some times ah fella does leave his house good to go on ah positive mission and run in to trouble, and by defending yuh rights yuh may end up on the wrong end of the law dry so. <--------------- True and that's ah fact...all nationalities go through this.

doh feel is just bad ppl getting deproted nah cana, it have real decent ppl who get caught up in that net, and yes! it's ah net , ah huge drag net , the only difference is they fishing for ppl of colour, but the real criminals like the russians , and the eastern europeans getting away with murder! literally and figuratively.<-------- I not thinking that it's only Caribbean people dear. But these are the only people I concerned about. I don't care what color complexion they have, when they get send home, they make harder for the ones who want to attend dey mudda funeral/visit ah relative in hospital - simply because the immigration officer on Marli Street and them on Sweet Briar Road doh truss you to come back.

We are our own worst enemy

p.s when ah getting promoted to lioness

[asylumseeker]

JC, phone a fren ... ah go answer Cana question

[just cool]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

Tigress these countries was build on the backs of immigrants, if yuh think westindians does violate their law then think again. <---------All Nationalities does violate, some more than others. How many times I hear stories of deportees coming back with BWIA aka Caribbean Airlines. Every bloody Wednesday at 7 am, at least 4 coming off a plane. And what dey do; assault, tief, rape and more recently drugs mules. 

these russians , albanians, even ppl from the former Yugoslavia does come here and carry on way worst than caribbean ppl and nothing of the sort does happen to them. <-----------I really don't care much about these people. When Caribbean people play the arse, they make it harder for those they innocent ones who following to get dey visitor visa/landed immigrant card. North America already think of us as 3rd world countries....why

but if ah caribbean legal immigrant only sneeze too hard in the U.S. these days , they want tuh lock yuh up and send yuh back down the road, they don't care if yuh have children or sick parents yuh caring for! ah mean it's ah real witch hunt! <---------Abide by dey rules and nothing will happen to you. But no my people want to drink and fight, walk bareback, take what aint' deres and shoot down the people place and lash people AND doh return after ya visitor visa EXPIRE. What you expect to happen

There are Caribbean people living in North America for donkey years that never saw what a handcuff looks like...what is the difference between them and those who getting a free plane ride home?

i know it have bad fellas from the caribbean who does do all kinda madness in the ppl place , but to every law breaker it have ten law abiding, so why should the innocent pay for the guilty. <---------- I agree with you. Peter pay for Paul - That happens everywhere including in the Caribbean

my great aunt always used to say "jail wasn't made tuh rippen fig" some times ah fella does leave his house good to go on ah positive mission and run in to trouble, and by defending yuh rights yuh may end up on the wrong end of the law dry so. <--------------- True and that's ah fact...all nationalities go through this.

doh feel is just bad ppl getting deproted nah cana, it have real decent ppl who get caught up in that net, and yes! it's ah net , ah huge drag net , the only difference is they fishing for ppl of colour, but the real criminals like the russians , and the eastern europeans getting away with murder! literally and figuratively.<-------- I not thinking that it's only Caribbean people dear. But these are the only people I concerned about. I don't care what color complexion they have, when they get send home, they make harder for the ones who want to attend dey mudda funeral/visit ah relative in hospital - simply because the immigration officer on Marli Street and them on Sweet Briar Road doh truss you to come back.

We are our own worst enemy

p.s when ah getting promoted to lioness

This is for CAPO. Breds mexicans and dominicans is ppl of colour, where yuh think the dominican republic is ? not in the middle of the caribbean?

i personally know that for a fact, BC my breddren working for INS and he does give me the scoop.

is real constitutional violations dem ppl does be engaging in, and dey does get way wid it BC WI to backward! dey don't know sh!t and does go on like they do, dey does just eat drink and work hard like cattle, but as far as being on the up and up,we are a waste of time. we doh have no political power and no say whatsoever here in foreign(U.S.), it's ah real shame.



Cana sorry for the mix up i was sending this post to capo but i quote the wrong post. i was going to reply to you soon as i was done with him , but since ah done here= as for the lioness, wham like yuh doh know ah tiger is the biggest wild cat and not the lion, take yuh time, tigress is the ultimate, enjoy.

[TriniCana]

JC but lioness 'cute'

[Disgruntled_Trini]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

I totally agree. When yuh in the people place, illegally at that, behave yuh self and stay in a gear. In other words, hush yuh mouth and leh people like yuh. Men does go out dey and have a sense of entitlement, like the US owe dem something.

Now that solider in the article must be had a string of bad luck eh but he is the exception and not the rule. It have men going out dey and eh do nothing with they life. I know a man who was dey nearly 20 years and get stop, for all things, driving with no license after all that time. Dey send him back forthwith, in the same clothes he had on. He eh even get chance to go home and pack.

I know at least 4 men in Trini right now who get deported for a variety of reasons. One ah dem so thusty to go back he trying to devise a plan to reach Canada and sneak cross the border.

[just cool]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

I totally agree. When yuh in the people place, illegally at that, behave yuh self and stay in a gear. In other words, hush yuh mouth and leh people like yuh. Men does go out dey and have a sense of entitlement, like the US owe dem something.

Now that solider in the article must be had a string of bad luck eh but he is the exception and not the rule. It have men going out dey and eh do nothing with they life. I know a man who was dey nearly 20 years and get stop, for all things, driving with no license after all that time. Dey send him back forthwith, in the same clothes he had on. He eh even get chance to go home and pack.

I know at least 4 men in Trini right now who get deported for a variety of reasons. One ah dem so thusty to go back he trying to devise a plan to reach Canada and sneak cross the border.

That's a real subjective point of view bro, i think you should look @ it from ah human rights prospective.

a fella live in a country for 20 yrs , lets just say he's ah tax payer, does not have ah criminal record, gets caught driving without a license, minor infraction, worthy of a ticket and ceasure of vehicle, instead BC he's a legal alien he's arrested, and deported back to his place of birth, even though he's been in the country since he was 2yrs old, schooled, reared and grew up in this culture.

how many white kids(over 21) does get arrested for all kinda major infractions, and does get released into their parents custody and within a month get the charges droped BC they had proper legal representation?

so why should that be? because they were born in the country ? does that give them far more rights than someone who was not, who may have grown and schooled alongside that said american born.

didn't alexander hamilton deserve the same rights as andrew jackson even though alexander was born outside of the U.S.?

assuredly yes , and they were in the days when men were crude, as oppossed to now where we( in contemporary times)has become more accomodating and civil.

what's happening right now in the society is quite illegal and unconstitutional, trust meh i know what i'm talking bout.

 i does read up on the constitution and the amendments, my lawyer brian from trini and he used to enlighten W.I. on the immigration law, he even has a monthly news letter, i could post one for you if you like.

 but no breds, half of them ppl who were deported was illegally deported.

[truetrini]

Therre was no US when Alexander hamilton was born, he was like the son washington never had....he was not west indian either he was an english man.

Washington was english first and then American after.

Hamilton was a founding father.

[just cool]

Therre was no US when Alexander hamilton was born, he was like the son washington never had....he was not west indian either he was an english man.

Washington was english first and then American after.

Hamilton was a founding father.

Breds where on earth did i mentioned the man (alexander) was a west indian??

[Disgruntled_Trini]

That's a real subjective point of view bro, i think you should look @ it from ah human rights prospective.

a fella live in a country for 20 yrs , lets just say he's ah tax payer, does not have ah criminal record, gets caught driving without a license, minor infraction, worthy of a ticket and ceasure of vehicle, instead BC he's a legal alien he's arrested, and deported back to his place of birth, even though he's been in the country since he was 2yrs old, schooled, reared and grew up in this culture.

how many white kids(over 21) does get arrested for all kinda major infractions, and does get released into their parents custody and within a month get the charges droped BC they had proper legal representation?

First off yuh ah have no rights per say because yuh dey illegally. Yuh eh suppose to be paying tax because yuh eh suppose to be woking in the people place, because yuh dey illegally.

Now, if yuh waiting on yuh papers to come through is one thing but dem people who does go dey and get in trouble, jes dey coasting through life, HUSTLIN.

So you trying to tell me, you in the people country illegally, operating a vehicle without a valid license and get ketch and you want to tell me bout human rights. Matter of fact, that is not even a minor infraction that is a serious charge. If he should bounce and kill somebody, what then???

Doh try and make no excuses for yuh padna and dem who dey illegally and eh even self have ah application form for ah green card much less residency. All yuh know what the right is, so do it.

Dem deportees does give the rest ah we law abiding people ah bad name. When we going through customs and the man see ah Trini passport is the most amount ah questions all because he know half ah we going NY with no intention of returning.

[truetrini]

Therre was no US when Alexander hamilton was born, he was like the son washington never had....he was not west indian either he was an english man.

Washington was english first and then American after.

Hamilton was a founding father.

Breds where on earth did i mentioned the man (alexander) was a west indian??

well yuh same he was afforded the SAME RIGHTS a person born in the US, and I merely pointed out that there was NO US at that time....so it eh matter...he was born in Nevis..dat coulda make him ah west indian not so?

anyway check yuh 10 dollar bill,,,,he was never a prez but de firsy sec of the treasury and founder of the bank of NY!

[just cool]

That's a real subjective point of view bro, i think you should look @ it from ah human rights prospective.

a fella live in a country for 20 yrs , lets just say he's ah tax payer, does not have ah criminal record, gets caught driving without a license, minor infraction, worthy of a ticket and ceasure of vehicle, instead BC he's a legal alien he's arrested, and deported back to his place of birth, even though he's been in the country since he was 2yrs old, schooled, reared and grew up in this culture.

how many white kids(over 21) does get arrested for all kinda major infractions, and does get released into their parents custody and within a month get the charges droped BC they had proper legal representation?

First off yuh ah have no rights per say because yuh dey illegally. Yuh eh suppose to be paying tax because yuh eh suppose to be woking in the people place, because yuh dey illegally.

Now, if yuh waiting on yuh papers to come through is one thing but dem people who does go dey and get in trouble, jes dey coasting through life, HUSTLIN.

So you trying to tell me, you in the people country illegally, operating a vehicle without a valid license and get ketch and you want to tell me bout human rights. Matter of fact, that is not even a minor infraction that is a serious charge. If he should bounce and kill somebody, what then???

Doh try and make no excuses for yuh padna and dem who dey illegally and eh even self have ah application form for ah green card much less residency. All yuh know what the right is, so do it.

Dem deportees does give the rest ah we law abiding people ah bad name. When we going through customs and the man see ah Trini passport is the most amount ah questions all because he know half ah we going NY with no intention of returning.

Breds yuh know what i don't like about posting on this forum! the way how fellas does put words in ppl mouth.

now where did i mentioned anything of illegal immigrants! go back and read properly what i wrote, and see if yuh could find any mention of "ILLEGAL and IMMIGRANTS" in the same sentence! sttuueeppsss.

[giggsy11]

When ya in another man's land, behave yaself and cross dey road properly.  When dey Trinis reach in Canada, ent dey does cross with the green light flashing and know not to hail out taxi at dey side of dey road - or go on dey 401 selling alphagarts and kite ?? Strange me ain't hear bout no domestic violence issues in Canada. Allyuh fraid to hit oman

Some people have common sense, they know what they can and can't get away wid.

I totally agree. When yuh in the people place, illegally at that, behave yuh self and stay in a gear. In other words, hush yuh mouth and leh people like yuh. Men does go out dey and have a sense of entitlement, like the US owe dem something.

Now that solider in the article must be had a string of bad luck eh but he is the exception and not the rule. It have men going out dey and eh do nothing with they life. I know a man who was dey nearly 20 years and get stop, for all things, driving with no license after all that time. Dey send him back forthwith, in the same clothes he had on. He eh even get chance to go home and pack.

I know at least 4 men in Trini right now who get deported for a variety of reasons. One ah dem so thusty to go back he trying to devise a plan to reach Canada and sneak cross the border.

That's a real subjective point of view bro, i think you should look @ it from ah human rights prospective.

a fella live in a country for 20 yrs , lets just say he's ah tax payer, does not have ah criminal record, gets caught driving without a license, minor infraction, worthy of a ticket and ceasure of vehicle, instead BC he's a legal alien he's arrested, and deported back to his place of birth, even though he's been in the country since he was 2yrs old, schooled, reared and grew up in this culture.

how many white kids(over 21) does get arrested for all kinda major infractions, and does get released into their parents custody and within a month get the charges droped BC they had proper legal representation?

so why should that be? because they were born in the country ? does that give them far more rights than someone who was not, who may have grown and schooled alongside that said american born.

didn't alexander hamilton deserve the same rights as andrew jackson even though alexander was born outside of the U.S.?

assuredly yes , and they were in the days when men were crude, as oppossed to now where we( in contemporary times)has become more accomodating and civil.

what's happening right now in the society is quite illegal and unconstitutional, trust meh i know what i'm talking bout.

 i does read up on the constitution and the amendments, my lawyer brian from trini and he used to enlighten W.I. on the immigration law, he even has a monthly news letter, i could post one for you if you like.

 but no breds, half of them ppl who were deported was illegally deported.

They will latch on to any reason to send people back because they have problems with us being their country and they think we are a strain on the economy. The thing is people need tuh stop giving them reasons to even get their foot in the door. You can't come up here and act like you were dragged up instead of being brought up. People does get tie up thinking is the land of the free, but bottom line all they seeing is foreigner and your skin colour, so don't give them reasons to do what they dying to do.