The Bahamas is getting stuck with the costs associated with detaining and repatriating these illegal Haitian aliens because the U.S. government is well aware that there are senior officials in the Bahamian government who for decades have been involved in the highly lucrative trade of human trafficking. And fatheads like Bell will try tell you it costs our country less to grant these illegal Haitian aliens resident status in The Bahamas, with a path to Bahamian citizenship, rather than repatriate them back to Haiti.

someone could *cure* this problem with a call to Keith Bell. Why go through the hadtle of detaining these people when they could be working. Right?

Of course you are right !!! Bahamians should quit their jobs and leave them vacant for migrants. ALSO they should move out of their homes and live in a tent in the bush - leaving the homes available for migrants. Hotels can do the same - just like they do in New York and San Francisco - put out the guests and give the rooms to the migrants. Maybe we should murder our own children thereby leaving the schools available for the children of migrants too ? Just asking ?

Sadly its where they are apprehended, if in Bahamian waters its the Bahamian issue. Our waters spread very far and wide. Sadly, there journey is to ultimately reach the U.S.A.

If we did not have an under-resourced and dysfunctional defense force, and kept the U.S. Coast Guard out of our territorial waters, then we could help channel to Florida most of the drugs, arms, and humans being smuggled through our nation that all along were intended/destined for the U.S.

All of them were comming to some one in the Bahamas , family members or friends, the laws are not tough enough so they break them came on a boat go back on a plane , they are sent back but very shortly return, free land and shanty towns