"*Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists warning signs to watch out for, such as people not being in control of their own documents such as passports and ID cards or being paid very little if at all for their work. They may never appear alone or seem limited in their ability to move around*"

We run a stupid nation.

And we put the dots together much too late.

When the news report came out that 62 Chinese nationals didnt have ID documents that was odd by itself. The next day when it was reported that the employer claimed to have their documents, my brain went *WHAT????*. I thought I'd misunderstood, couldnt be, then I heard it repeated on another news segment. And then to find out that the minister of Immigration having received a report of the apprehension of said individuals, alledges that he had a conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister who was at the time Acting Prime Minister who'd in turn had a conversation with the employer(!!!) and had agreed to release said individuals back into the custody of the employer with no attempt to determine who they were.

What is this fake nation of crime facilitation?? Let's change the name of the honourable House to the House of Ill Repute

My comment from July 26, posted when I heard someone explain that thsre might be an explanation for why an employer might have an immigrant's ID documents

"*No no no, an employer cannot hold the identity documents of an immigrant worker. You are setting up a classic slave labour environment. Because now you in a strange land and you cant leave. And either Bell or Cooper allegedly facilitated this???*

*Can a citizenry go to the world court?*

A day before on Jul 25:
"*About 2 months ago after hearing Chinese immigrant after Chinese immigrant caught in smuggling operations to the US, the question I asked here was, "were any of those persons employed at the Pointe?" If Haitian nationals are rumoured to pay 2000 per trip what would a Chinese national pay? And how many years would they be indentured to pay off the debt? Another thing that disturbs me about the Chinese workers is how invisible they are. Recall almost a decade ago when Chinese construction workers staged a protest about how badly they were being treated? We never heard another thing about it. Who knows what happened to them. Wasnt it also reported that the employer had their identity documents? "IF" thats the case, its a classic trafficking scenario....*"

It boggles my mind that our authorities can apprehend a boat filled with “illegal migrants”, but can NEVER identify the ‘smugglers’???!🤷🏽‍♂️

When we truly value human life and decide to treat people fairly utilizing a sense of right from wrong then maybe we’ll take human trafficking seriously! It won’t matter who benefits or how high up their social status is…treating others like we’d want our loved ones treated is a universal truth.

Somebody buying **alot** of shingles. I sorry for them if the FBI on the case. For this story to hit the Washington post gigantic alarm bells have been raised

You cannot "identify" anything you are a part of!

Louby Georges is right as he and every Haitian including ALL of our politicians of Haitian descent, know the inner working of the human smuggling network between the Bahamas and Haiti!

The U.S. State Department knows it is **absolutely impossible** for a tiny country like the Bahamas to have a 50-year ongoing billion-dollar human-smuggling operation and the government not have any evidence of who is involved.

When the UN finally resolves the situation in Haiti, it will be easy for them to also discover the smuggling links between Haiti and the Bahamas.

Bahamian smugglers have been engaged in trafficking Haitians since the 1790s during their escape to Louisiana.

Just a different place & time.

The world has just changed in its stance to human trafficking. The white people trafficked millions of Negroes to America for over 350 years. Now they are crying crocodile tears about the modern slave trade that is probably more widespread than 200 years ago.

This has nothing to do with white people. That s is black people trafficking other black people, Chinese people, Mexican people,Cuban people, and Haitian people. And getting away with it for decades

Tax the smuggler They will pay.
Oh, They Already Do!
Who is holding the money?

A smuggled person pays his way to cross borders in search of best personal economic opportunities. A trafficked person is lured toward a promised better life from their current situation. The above is correct for Human Trafficking as relates entrapment for labor, sex, prostitution, but never the intent. The trafficked person, though under abuse, is often afraid of Immigration procedures unless critically abused. The trafficker makes himself the absolute authority, and I'd the person is young and female feels beholden for food, money and security and is reluctant to seek help or forcibly returned to a worst condition. The trafficker is most often a local or with legal status and never fulfills promises of absolute freedom. Human Trafficking is too difficult to maintain in,The Bahamas because bordered can only be crossed by sea. A trafficked person would often cross borders without the traffickers knowledge or with identification which is always held by the trafficker.

As long as The USA makes it easy for smuggled persons to assimilate into its society, economy and politics 100% the Bahamas will remain a transit point toward USA destination. We are wasting our money and time here as Canada is even more welcoming to economic refugees. We are back to the cocsinw trade mentality, Bahamas bring neither the supply point of nationality nor demand point. The USA cannot protect assimilation by Chinese, South American, or Haitian ongo to fabric of its society. We can do absolutely nothing protesting persons of the world en route to the land of milk and honey.