In todays Trinidad Guardian Griffith on deportations: Africans not target Chastising the chairman of the Emancipation Support Committee Khafra Kambon for “making mischievous statements about racial profiling,” Griffith warned that all illegal immigrants had until February to become regularised. “If not, we will take every action to ensure that they are deported to their homeland,” Griffith said He denied Kambon’s statements that 80 per cent of the immigrants currently detained at the Immigration Detention Centre, Arima, were from Africa. “There are 131 detainees currently housed at the Immigration Detention Centre and only 23 detainees are African nationals. These include 14 from Nigeria, seven from Ghana and two from Senegal and South Africa respectively, Griffith said. Saying this represents only 17.8 per cent of the total number of detainees, Griffith added: “651 people have been repatriated from T&T to the Caribbean, Latin American, European and African countries in 2014 of which only nine were African nationals. [ Click the link to read this article in full guardian.co.tt/news/2014-12-09/griffith-deportations-africans-not-target ]
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:20:00 +0000
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