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US deports more than 88,000 to Caribbean and Latin America
Published on April 20, 2011
by Global News Staff
WASHINGTON, USA -- The United States has deported 88,497 “criminal aliens” or migrants were deported to their country of birth in the Latin America and the Caribbean region in the past six months, according to figures released by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The figures show that from the start of the 2011 fiscal year in October last year to the end of March this year, more than 2,000 criminals were sent back to the Caribbean.
A "criminal alien" is defined under US immigration laws as a migrant who is convicted of a crime.
The number sent back to Latin America stood at 86,469, while 2,028 were deported to the Caribbean.
Topping the Caribbean list are 1,066 deportees to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica in the second spot with 528 deportees and Trinidad and Tobago a distant third with 125. Bahamas had 65 deportees, Guyana 64, Aruba 50, Haiti 31, Bermuda 4, St Kitts and Nevis 3. There were two each to Suriname, British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.
Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands received one criminal deportee each. The biggest receiver of criminal migrants was Mexico, with 70,874 deported as of March 28 this year.
Published on April 20, 2011
by Global News Staff
WASHINGTON, USA -- The United States has deported 88,497 “criminal aliens” or migrants were deported to their country of birth in the Latin America and the Caribbean region in the past six months, according to figures released by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The figures show that from the start of the 2011 fiscal year in October last year to the end of March this year, more than 2,000 criminals were sent back to the Caribbean.
A "criminal alien" is defined under US immigration laws as a migrant who is convicted of a crime.
The number sent back to Latin America stood at 86,469, while 2,028 were deported to the Caribbean.
Topping the Caribbean list are 1,066 deportees to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica in the second spot with 528 deportees and Trinidad and Tobago a distant third with 125. Bahamas had 65 deportees, Guyana 64, Aruba 50, Haiti 31, Bermuda 4, St Kitts and Nevis 3. There were two each to Suriname, British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.
Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands received one criminal deportee each. The biggest receiver of criminal migrants was Mexico, with 70,874 deported as of March 28 this year.
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