US to consider visa suspensions to Jamaica

[Jangle]

This morning on my way to work I heard on the radio that the US was considering suspending issuing new visas to countries like Jamaica and China because of their refusal to accept criminal deportees back into their countries. Did anyone else hear it? There were a number of countries listed, but I only remember hearing China and Jamaica. I tried searching the internet to validate the story but nothing yet.

I think it's unfair to dump criminals who have been here for more than 3/4 of their lives on the countries of their birth. Some of these criminals have no family back home to go back to.

[Lazie]

This morning on my way to work I heard on the radio that the US was considering suspending issuing new visas to countries like Jamaica and China because of their refusal to accept criminal deportees back into their countries. Did anyone else hear it? There were a number of countries listed, but I only remember hearing China and Jamaica. I tried searching the internet to validate the story but nothing yet.

I think it's unfair to dump criminals who have been here for more than 3/4 of their lives on the countries of their birth. Some of these criminals have no family back home to go back to.

Haven't heard the story ... but emotions aside .... if they aren't citizens of the USA, what should they do with them then?

[Jangle]

Most are legal residents. The others (illegal residents) should be sent back.

[Gamma]

FACTS .....where is vivian blake? where is deedo and his compadres?

that reasoning is a pretext! i dem nuh wa'an issue new visas dat is dere perogative dem nuh need fi manufacture BS...if the story overheard is true of course...

[Lazie]

Most are legal residents. The others (illegal residents) should be sent back.

... isn't it the norm to deport legal residents that break the law? What must happen is our people respect the laws of the country in which they now reside. The other day a man block the sidewalk and police come pon the scene a give a ticket ... the man look pon the police and tell him fi guh suck him madda. Wha kinda thing that? As much as I'm no fan of the police, it wasn't called for. Now him should be deported cause one thing is certain, him wouldn't even think about saying that if it was a Jamaican police.

[Hortical]

I doubt Jamaica is refusing to accept criminal deportees. The USA has been deporting those losers back to Jamaica for decades now.

[Lazie]

I doubt Jamaica is refusing to accept criminal deportees. The USA has been deporting those losers back to Jamaica for decades now.

Well, not certain bout the losers description. There are some who were deported just for immigration reasons. They might have been out of status but they were hard working people.

[Gamma]

vivian blake was deported for immigration reasons?

[Lazie]

vivian blake was deported for immigration reasons?

How yuh get to that now?

[Hortical]

My comment is directed to the criminal deportees, and not to the hard working illegals. I have no sympathy for losers who come to America and make a fool of themselves.

[Gamma]

yuh si di question sign?

[Lazie]

Gov't dismisses report Jamaica refusing to accept deportees


Karyl Walker, Observer Staff Reporter
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
THE Jamaican Government has refuted a report in the US media that the country was refusing to accept deportees from the United States, resulting in a clog in that country's penal system.
A report in Monday's edition of the New York Post said US Republican lawmakers were threatening to put on hold all visa applications from Jamaica, Vietnam, China, Iran and India, as these countries were refusing to accept some 140,000 of their citizens who have been slapped with deportation orders.
But permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Major Richard Reese, said the Government was not refusing to accept deportees.
"We are guided by the ruling of the overseas courts. We have excellent relationships with our overseas partners as it relates to deportation and I am not aware of any challenges as it relates to deportation. We have regular flights back here," Reese told the Observer.
Three US Republican senators - Peter King, Arlen Specter and Charlie Dente - said Jamaica's alleged refusal to accept deportees had put a strain on that nation's security as under US law, criminal aliens cannot be held in custody for more than 180 days after being ordered deported or else they must be granted amnesty.
Reese, however, refused to accept blame.
"The amnesty seems to be something they should address," Reese said.
The report also drew the ire of a security ministry source who said the US may be concerned about cutting costs and may be looking to commute the sentences of foreign nationals to allow for early deportation.
"They seem to be very concerned about overcrowding in their prisons and the cost," the source said.
Jamaica has signed extradition treaties with the US, Canada and Britain.
Since 1997, Jamaica has accepted more than 20,000 deportees from these countries.
More than 90 per cent of deportees are males and more than 60 per cent had been convicted in the United States of a felony under provisions of a controversial Illegal Immigration Reform Act.
Most deportees were convicted on drug-related charges including the sale and/or distribution of cocaine and marijuana.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/..._DEPORTEES.asp

[Hortical]

Those republicans were chatting a bunch of bull, and Jamaica has always accepted deportees from foreign shores.

[Naminirt]

20,000!!! in the last 10-11 years thats high