ST.LUCIANEWSONLINE.COM reports that a total of 28 St. Lucians were deported from the the US last year. Of those, 14 had criminal convictions.
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Twenty-eight
St. Lucians were sent packing from the United States in 2012, according to
figures from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE).
According
to a report 14 were sent to St. Lucia because of criminal convictions and 14 as
well for what ICE described as ‘non-criminal’.
The
St. Lucian deportees with criminal convictions were among 4,898 criminal
immigrants who were sent back to the Caribbean last year.
A
“criminal alien” is defined under U.S. immigration laws as a migrant who is
convicted of a crime.
Most
of those deported were sent back for murders and sex and drug crimes, according
to ICE.
Non-criminal
immigrants deported to the Caribbean totaled 1,612.
In
total, the number of all immigrants sent back to the Caribbean region in 2012
was put at 6,510 by ICE. For the Caribbean in 2012, the highest number of
criminal deportees, 2264, were sent back to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica
was second with 1,213.
ICE
deported 41 to Dominica: 19 with criminal convictions and 22 as ‘non-criminal.’
U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, John Morton, said the US
administration’s focus remains on removing from the country, convicted
criminals and other individuals who fall into priority areas for enforcement.
“Smart
and effective immigration enforcement relies on setting priorities for removal
and executing on those priorities,” he said. “In order to further enhance our
ability to focus enforcement efforts on serious offenders, we are changing who
ICE will issue detainers against.”
He
said the 2012 report indicates that progress is being made in removing criminal
elements from the US. “We are constantly looking for ways to ensure that we are
doing everything we can to utilize our resources in a way that maximizes public
safety,” Morton stated.
The
rates for other CARICOM countries were as follows:
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Haiti :
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758
total removals (568 criminal and 190 non-criminal);
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Trinidad and Tobago:
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242
total removals (187 criminal and 55 non-criminal);
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Belize:
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217
total removals (152 criminal and 65 non-criminal);
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Guyana:
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182
total removals (154 criminal and 28 non-criminal);
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The Bahamas:
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123
total removals (98 criminal and 25 non-criminal);
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Cuba:
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66
total removals (55 criminal and 11 non-criminal);
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Barbados:
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50
total removals (45 criminal and 5 non-criminal);
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Dominica:
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41
total removals (19 criminal and 22 non-criminal);
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St. Kitts-Nevis:
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40
total removals (32 criminal and 8 non-criminal);
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Antigua & Barbuda:
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36
total removals (25 criminal and 11 non-criminal)
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Grenada:
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25
total removals (15 criminal and 10 non-criminal);
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Suriname:
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6
total removals (6 criminal and 0 non-criminal);
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Bermuda:
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8
total removals (5 criminal and 3 non-criminal);
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Suriname:
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6
total removals (6 criminal and 0 non-criminal);
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Montserrat:
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2
total removals (2 criminal and 0 non-criminal);
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Anguilla:
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1
total removal (0 criminal and 1 non-criminal);
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Cayman Islands:
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1
total removals (1 criminal and 0 non-criminal);
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For
Latin America, Mexico topped the
list with 289,686 total removals including174,003 criminal and 115,683
non-criminals while Guatemala was second with 40,498 total removals (14,251
criminal and 26,247 non-criminal).
SOURCE: http://www.stlucianewsonline.com/28-st-lucians-deported-from-the-us-in-2012/
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