I am very much free, can't say the same for people living in denial. Facts are facts. You can choose to deny the fact that there was a psychological and social conditioning component to slavery that did not magically disappear after slavery and colonization. It worked like a charm and as intended to create a low self esteem underclass. Sorry, but I cannot pretend otherwise when everyday I see black women in hideous euro weaves, tearing up their skin to be lighter, and placing white people on a pedestal as if certain negative behaviors are exclusive to black people. Like I said, you all prefer to believe these things are inherent, but it is thanks to the psychological and social oppression doled out by white people well beyond slavery. Lastly, no Bahamian politician can be trusted as far as I am concerned. I mean from the UBP to now. You are again off the mark thinking I will waste my time defending any of them.

Gomez is a joke, I agree. I hope you are playing dense or you are a bigger joke than he is and that’s saying something.

Well your Portuguese forbearers have quite the reputation as the most brutal of all the European slaveholders in the Americas. I guess that is one way to recover from a slave past. Most black Bahamians don’t steal. In fact, they are not anywhere near the pot to steal. This is nothing but condescending gibberish from someone who mistakes his misguided sense of superiority as intelligence.

Disgusting comments and exactly the reason why we cannot have a serious discussion or progress on race relations. The fact remains that white people benefitted from slavery and that set future generations up for prosperity. The facts remain that well into this generation, black people are suffering from the effects of being dehumanized, enslaved, and marginalized once again for generations. Too many black people still have an inferiority complex, and apparently, your superiority complex is still going strong. You guys would love to believe that black people are inherently inferior and that slavery and colonization has nothing to do with black people being at the bottom today, but those are not the facts. Slavery gave white people one heck of a head start whether you admit it or not.

So on top of the never ending illegal immigrant problem he is calling for a birth tourism problem and a useless passport problem? Only a few countries practice citizenship at birth and only two are first world countries. Way to think backwards! If this is the way his mind works, his interpretation of the law cannot be trusted. If they have an undeniable right to citizenship, then they would be required to register as citizens during the one year window, not apply to become citizens. The only thing that needs to happen at birth is that the foreign parents need to get their children registered at their embassy and at the registrars office.

I suggest that they dedicate the upcoming flag day to tracing their lineage in The Bahamas or learning about available resources to do so. If the young men in these situations tend to surface only when they commit crimes, that means they are already on the fast track to jail and being stains on society. One who is otherwise law abiding will only be detained in the detention center and processed accordingly.

In case you missed it, the problem that they are trying to remedy is Haitian nationals lingering around brazenly undocumented, well beyond their 19th birthdays because they could not be bothered to apply for citizenship. The Bahamas does not need to fill the gap for what is lacking in the Haitian constitution. The parents of that "grouping of persons" you mentioned need to petition their government well before their kids 18th birthday so that they will have a passport and all other documents when they apply prior to turning 19. Otherwise, they should be prepared to prove their statelessness. The government is doing way too much in spelling out the consequences of not applying. Not applying renders non-applicants as citizens of their parents country and they are rightfully subject to deportation like any other undocumented non-citizen. It is not that complicated.

A country is not a charity and countries do not run on emotions and sob stories, if the plan is to be a successful nation. The rules for citizenship are very simple. By now, his people should have long established best practices for obtaining citizenship in a timely manner. Instead it is his very people that are clogging up the system and committing fraud resulting in the extensive delays. They know that sometimes all they need is a good sob story to get around the law, and that is not how it should work. The Bahamas needs to set the right tone so that they take the law seriously. The fact is they live in a country within a country and are only Bahamians when it is convenient for them. The average Haitian in the Bahamas knows more about Haiti than they do the Bahamas.

Wow! Haiti sure is brazen and I believe that it is thanks to this corrupt FNM practice of flying Haitian nationals back to the Bahamas when they never applied for citizenship. Soon they will refuse entire planes on the grounds that it will cut into their GDP. Meanwhile, the UK is steadfastly deporting people that were born or brought to the UK as children when they cannot prove that they are citizens.That is how a country operates when they respect law and order. The Bahamas really needs to stop the slackness. This man should not have been in the detention center for four months. He should have been returned to Haiti.

Typical, using children and even dead people, to deflect and distract from a very serious illegal immigration crisis that seems to have no end in sight. Bahamians, and the country as a whole do “the right thing” by illegal immigrants everyday, (Haitians in particular). We don’t have to eagerly accept illegal immigrants with a cheerful attitude, especially when it is more and more to our detriment. However, all Bahamians do is complain. In some African countries, they react violently to having to share their sliver of the pie with illegals. However, all of that is quite different from not affording them human rights. Like all government agencies, the immigration system falls way short on living up to expectations. There are abuses and miscarriages of justice, and on the other end, corrupt and/or self righteous individuals who think their wants, needs, or their beliefs trump carrying out the law. Mass waves of illegal immigrants certainly won’t make the process more efficient. In fact, it will only get worse.