Your obsession with Bahamians is mind boggling. I don't care for the attitudes of most Jamaicans that I have met. For that reason, I don't camp out in Jamaican spaces.

No time like the present to ensure that laws are upheld. Who has a crystal ball to predict a "right time" for enforcing immigration laws? No matter what, there is always some more pressing issue that they will use to deflect from immigration and that is why we are here now. If the government delays deportation, it wont be long before that sham rights group has them trying to claim ownership of the government owned shelters.

Man kicks door of an empty dwelling on uninhabitable land. Big deal! Perhaps he was blowing off steam from the fact that the government is being pressured to provide indefinitely for homeless, unemployed, illegal immigrants as a priority to everyone else when organizations like the so called Christian Council could be stepping up to the plate. And where is your sister org, the ridiculously named, League of Haitian pastors? Why don't you guys kick open your church doors to house illegal immigrants? You can also use all tithes and offerings to provide for their upkeep. You can hold church outside or in tents in the meantime. I would love to see the day when you all announce something like that.

Generally speaking, squatters are supposed to show improvements to the land or existing structure. Turning green space into eyesore shanty towns is not an improvement. The whole notion is ludicrous and can be shot down by a competent attorney. In fact, the government should countersue for the impact to the environment, years of unpaid property taxes, and failure to adhere to building laws and codes.

This blog entry is almost 10 years old and it goes to show that the idea of just claiming land in The Bahamas is well established in the minds of Haitians. Now the government is attempting to change the law, once again, to accommodate the wants of the Haitian community.

*“It became immediately apparent from the accent this gentleman was from Haiti . . .” “I can’t resist and I ask him what he's doing. Turns out he's trying to clear the area so he can claim the property; something the Bahamian government provides for its people. You clear the land in certain areas and you can apply for ownership -- just like homesteading in the Wild West. You gotta love it. We use Caterpillars back home and Henry uses a good ole Machete. This guy has heart.”*

https://eleuthera-bahamas.blogspot.com/…

What??? The government of The Bahamas is going to pay Haitians (possibly illegal immigrants) for land that they do not own? The Peas is private property and the then FNM government shut the man down when he attempted to evict them in 2010. The Mud is crown land, meaning it already belongs to the government.

Bahamians need to stop joking about it and just go ahead and build anywhere they please. One day the government will pay you for having the audacity to do so.

You illegal immigrant enablers have no shame with your blatant hypocrisy. It is truly disgusting the way you encourage anti-Bahamian sentiment while talking about working together. All hush hush about at least one first hand account of creole speakers terrorizing Abaco after the hurricane, but quick to brand the extreme opinions of a few Bahamians as "popular opinion." If it was popular opinion that Haitians should be shot in the head, or the subjects of violence, they would not have to fuel their anti Bahamian propaganda with fake videos of violence against them in the Bahamas. People like you justify their every wrongdoing and fuel the pity party to the extent that a Haitian man felt it completely logical to blame and threaten Bahamians if his mother was one of the victims in the Mud where he left her. Another felt it was appropriate to gripe about the quality of food in the shelter when food and water had yet to reach some Bahamians taking shelter in almost demolished homes. Yes, we can talk about illegal immigration all day, but when people like you deflect with off topic responses that is why we end up having to talk about it at the most inopportune times, like now. There is no time like the present to hold those humans to the same standards as everyone else.

It doesn't matter what is said, any statement that is not pro Haitian/pro illegal immigrants is called xenophobic. I am glad he at least distinguished the difference, because illegal immigrant enablers don't seem to know this. Or so they pretend. Now I wonder if the DR is half as bad as they say, or the victims of a Haitian smear campaign like they are attempting now with the fake videos they are putting out there.

Fred Smith and cohorts have said time and again that Bahamians are charging the illegal immigrant squatters rent. This means that those Bahamians still have ownership of their properties, no? I also thought that was the exact reason why some charged rent. Whatever convoluted, unconstitutional, outright ridiculous argument that he comes up with, Minnis and crew will stand around in awe and pretend they have no defense. They will fire any sensible attorney capable of making quick work of this garbage claim.

It is not rocket science. Displaced Bahamians, whether generational or not, should have access to the same options for rebuilding their homes or renting proper dwellings. Work permit Haitians that are now without a job and illegals need to go back to the countries of origin. Fred Smith does this stuff to antagonize Bahamians and to make illegal immigrants even more resolved about the entitlements to which they are not entitled.

200,000 Haitian legal/illegal immigrants combined according to a Haitian publication. If this is true, is it still xenophobic or the simple truth when citizens express concern about overcrowded classrooms and clinics, sprawling shantytowns, Haitian gangs, etc. No one is ever prepared to uncover or face the facts and it is never the right time according to illegal immigrant enablers.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/bahamian-a…