On the sidelines of the 29th session of the CARICOM Conference of Heads of State and Government to be held in Haiti on February 26 and 27, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis will hold talks with the Haitian authorities in addition to cooperation issues in general, of immigration in particular a priority issue for the Bahamas.

Recall that last October, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis told the Legislative Chamber that the government gave all migrants in an irregular migratory situation on the territory of the Bahamas, until December 31, 2017 to put themselves in order or to leave the country https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22417-haiti-flash-tens-of-thousands-of-haitians-threatened-with-deportation-in-the-bahamas.html . Nearly 50,000 Haitians in an irregular migratory situation out of the 70,000 living in the Bahamas, are threatened with eviction by this measure, according to estimates by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

If interceptions of Haitian boat people boats continue regularly and repatriations of Haitian nationals have already taken place https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23124-icihaiti-bahamas-114-haitians-repatriated-at-the-cost-of-$40-000.html it seems according to former Bahamian Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell, that since the beginning of the year nothing has really changed, which leads him to wonder about the announcements of the Prime Minister targeting illegal aliens in the Bahamas...

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23427-icihaiti-flash-dozens-of-haitian-homes-destroyed-in-arson-in-the-bahamas.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23364-haiti-bahamas-70-haitian-boat-people-intercepted-off-long-island.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23141-haiti-bahamas-76-haitian-boat-people-intercepted-at-sea.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23124-icihaiti-bahamas-114-haitians-repatriated-at-the-cost-of-$40-000.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23112-haiti-social-interception-of-87-haitian-migrants-off-the-bahamas.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22417-haiti-flash-tens-of-thousands-of-haitians-threatened-with-deportation-in-the-bahamas.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21793-haiti-flash-151-haitian-boat-people-intercepted-off-the-bahamas.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21628-haiti-security-rescue-of-88-haitian-migrants-off-little-inagua.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21505-haiti-security-102-boat-people-repatriated-to-cap-haitien.html

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