Now is the time for our Caricom 'brothers and sisters' to step up and relocate some of our hurting illegal brothers and sisters from down south. I figure Guyana, Trinidad and Jamaica can each take 1000 or more, the smaller islands can each take 350-500. Any takers, anybody?

Good luck with that!!

For decades now many of the Caribbean nations south of us have been trying to boost there own economies by making it as easy as possible for many of their indigent citizens to illegally enter the Bahamas with the hope of finding work and sending money back home to their families. The invasion of the Bahamas by illegal aliens from other Caribbean nations has been exacerbated by greedy powerful criminal elements involved in highly profitable human trafficking enterprises. These very same criminal enterprises are also engaged in the smuggling of arms and drugs. Sadly, we have been betrayed as a nation by Bahamians who are duplicitous in these illegal activities for their own very greedy self-gain, including no doubt some of our past and present senior government officials. The rumours over the years about corruption within our immigration department, registry of births and passport office are well known within the Bahamian community.

Successive PLP and FNM governments have done nothing to protect Bahamians from the ongoing invasion of the Bahamas by illegal aliens, too many of whom are involved in the criminal enterprises I mentioned above or are members of violent gangs that have been wreaking havoc on our society. Survivors in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian would have been granted generous visa waivers and many forms of other assistance by the U.S. government and the State of Florida **were it not for** the fact that Bahamians have allowed their successive PLP and FNM governments to turn a blind eye to the protection of our country's borders with no real enforcement of our immigration laws. This has been the case for so many years now that the Bahamas has effectively become a satellite state of Haiti in the eyes of the U.S. government, and rightfully so.

For the first time ever yesterday, a President of the U.S. announced to the world that the U.S. is unwilling to waive any of its strict documentation requirements for getting into and staying temporarily in the U.S. for Hurricane Dorian survivors from Abaco and Grand Bahama because of the national security risks associated with our illegal alien problems. This position has of course now received the support of the Governor of the State of Florida and Florida's two Republican Senators. Bahamians must not allow the Minnis-led FNM government and other political officials to try spin this position of the U.S. government into anti-American sentiment or racism. We Bahamians allowed our successive PLP and FNM governments to do nothing about our illegal alien problems and the U.S. government has every right, in fact the mandate from the American people, to protect their homeland.

All of the talk over the years by our successive PLP and FNM governments about the U.S. being responsible for the criminal elements within our very large community of illegal aliens and being the main market place (creating the demand) for their contraband has been nothing but a convenient excuse for doing nothing of any great consequence to prevent the ongoing invasion of our country.