Take back our natural resources from the elites and put it in the hands of the people and we will be alright regardless of any blacklist that the EU put on us.

Read some of the other comments and you would see that the US taxes doesn't make that much of a difference. Also, with the cost of living which includes gas prices, and now VAT. I would say they would make a lot more in the US.

That was my suspicion because the FNM was in power. What I am saying about the elites which includes the politicians is they created that problem for selfish reason and then make a show of it by rounding up a few Haitians (the ones that are probably with the other party) to appease Bahamians. This is a win-win situation for them because Bahamians enlarge are not noticing other things like corruption and how they are selling out the country and only them (elites)are gaining from it. I will give you guys an example of why Haitians is not the real problem but corruption is, back in the late 70's, early 80's when the economy wasn't that bad, people wasn't really complaining about Haitians in fact if the Haitians did pack up and leave it would've affect most Bahamians even the small % that was complaining because we wouldn't had anyone to do the jobs like garbage collecting and cutting grass that hardly any Bahamians would've done back then. Now, fast forward to today, if these politicians wasn't corrupted we would have all been benefiting from our natural resources and jobs would be so much available that we would be calling for Haitians to do the same jobs that we were so prideful to do back then because our carrying capacity would be greater.

That secret treaty might be true, because like i said the elites who is also in politics benefits from illegal immigration, in more than one way. I am not sure what side of the political aisle that most Haitians are on but I could remember being in Nassau to get my passport back in late 2011 and I kid you not over 200 people traffic in and out of there and about 90% were Haitians. I am not against Haitians but I believe in securing the borders and if the economy picks up where we need people to work, then we can let some in but seeing the amount of Haitians that were trying to get their passport on that day suggested to me that one of the parties was making a push to gain votes. I could be wrong but the coincidence that all of those Haitians trying to get their passport in that little time that I was there was suspect.

I know you are only being sarcastic, but you are halfway correct. In your sarcasm you identified both of the problems but some on this blog only seeing the illegal immigration part which needs to be dealt with but the corruption needs to be dealt with even more than the illegal immigration part because corruption is what got this illegal immigration problem out of hand in the first place.

With a name like Economist, you should have the intelligence to see the point of view. You main to tell me that the elites in the Bahamas wouldn't use the same tactic as the elites in the US, Great Britain, Canada, Australia or any capitalist country to put basic fear in Bahamians so they wouldn't see them bringing extra burden on them and instead get caught up with other issues? Anyways halfway thru writing this post I realize that
with a name like Economist you are one of the elites and don't want regular people to see what is the real problem in the Bahamas.

Not saying there isn't a problem with illegal immigration, also, every country have a carrying capacity and this has been breached in the Bahamas. However, keep your eyes on the elites and their strategy. finally read this quote that is originally from President Johnson that I doctored up a bit.
"If you can convince the lowest white man (Bahamian in this case) he's better than the best colored man (Haitian), he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell (By Damn), give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

You are touching on one problem while not recognizing the other. Even if the Bahamas deport all immigrants, there is still a problem with corruption that is independent from illegal immigrants. Growing up there was corruption with getting your drivers license, you could not pass a test if you were train by the CIA without paying the money that the tester required. If you get caught with drugs, all the person would have to do is pay off the officer and most significantly our politicians have been getting kick backs from the beginning. So instead of looking at the illegal alien part of the article, look at the intention of the article that is to point of corruption, which is the real detriment to the Bahamas.

You could find a lot people throughout the Islands that don't even have that much on them (birth certificates)

Exactly, There are some Bahamians that has features that are similar to the so call Haitian features with high cheek bones. So they so emotionally glued to this case that they don't understand that they could be question and apprehended just like this guy. The only papers you might have is a passport and a drivers license because there is nothing such as a citizenship papers if you are a citizen and everyone doesn't have a passport, so you could very well be stuck in a detention center for sometime. He more than likely sound like and everyday Bahamian so they discriminate base on features and last name.