CBC still struggling to manage migrants at Fairbanks
(CNS): Cuban migrants being held at the Customs and Border Control immigration centre at Fairbanks have been trying to escape, as frustrations mount at the overcrowded facility. CBC is currently holding around 180 migrants at various locations, including some who are believed to be in the community. Officials said that a tense situation had developed earlier on Friday and repairs have been made to the perimeter fence.
“CBC continues to work with their partner agencies, including Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) and Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison Service (HMCIPS) to manage the situation and maintain security,” officials said in very short release.
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Send back the ungrateful Cubans and the Jamaican criminals before we lose Paradise!!!
Paradise has been lost long ago with over development.
but we are caymankind????……..zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Cuban refugees, to say the least, are some of the most ungrateful yet demanding set of people this side of the world have to deal with.
In reality, they are economic refugees, leave their country expecting to get everything for nothing, like most do in Cuba, make demands on the host country that citizens don’t even get and they in turn, show no level of appreciation for the host country’s assistance and I say ship every single last one of them out of our country and spend this money of our people who are struggling day by day.
#Caymankind
Host country? They are locked up here. They don’t want to be here, but we give them the choice of continuing their journey but without replenishing food and water, or be locked up pending an asylum request. What “assistance “ is it you say they should be grateful for? What demands are they making in Cayman “that citizens don’t even get”. I have never demanded to be locked up in Fairbanks, especially not in close proximity to others with chickenpox, let alone be forced to sleep in a tent in the prison yard. Some human compassion might be in order rather than an illogical rant based on complete nonsense.
So how many are you boarding at your place?
It would be cheaper for us and safer for them to treat them as humans, in-transit, and just fly those that can afford to Nicaragua once a month. They don’t need a visa and Nicaragua invited them. Cuba told them to go and/or didn’t stop them. Allow Miami relatives to prepay for their flights and get them moving to their final destination. They can even have a Tortuga Fruitpunch. Could prove to be the most profitable route in CAL’s library of losers, and Nicaraguans are a major work permit partner already.
Do that and you will receive thousands more Cubans once the news breaks out that Cayman is assisting them on their way t Nicaragua.
Who cares. I’m a fisherman and I’m glad know that a would assist me with food and water to continue my journey in times of distress. Not put me in jail because my country, who I’m escaping from and I have no wishes to stay in your country. Set me free. Am I not human to walk this earth as God intended.
Why are we as a country doing Castro’ will.
Free the people
The dont have enough cojones to do what others countries do to overthrown that government, instead they flee and depleting other countries economy.
Cuba’s labor camps are filled with outspoken critics of the regime. Those with cajones there are disappeared.
That would be great for CAL. Havana direct to Managua would also be full. Don’t even need to land in Cayman.
On international matters, the Cayman Islands has to follow the UK’s policies and of course, international policies in regards to refugees.
What I don’t understand is how US policy can send refugees back immediately, yet ours (UK’s) requires us to house them. Last week, 27 Cubans landed near Islamorada in the Florida Keys, by weekend they were on a USCG cutter being taken back.
Why does our policy require us to house refugees for months/years?
Anyone, please?
Largely incompetence and delay by our government authorities. #worldclass.
ThebUS has a screening interview – if you don’t satisfy the immigration officer that you have a well founded fear of persecution sufficient for you to apply for asylum, back you go.
Because of commonwealth laws and not 3rd worlds
Poor leadership!
It’s not like the U.K. where hundreds cross the Channel from France almost every day and not one of them is French.They come from Africa and all over the Middle East but don’t carry i.d.
In our case thet all come from Cuba, why can’t we charter a Carnival ship and send them all back?, it would be a lot cheaper than housing and feeding them for months, especially on a Carnival ship.
Go home. No one cares about the UK/US all about RUS/CHN now.
Why do we continue to accommodate unappreciative persons who come here illegally and then want to reap from our people and land. We don’t even know who these individuals are and if the documents they have or not, are authentic. Send them on there way and avoid all the unnecessary. This is not their preferred choice anyway
give them something to do like some gardening work or build a shed, they are able bodied people who have done nothing for a long time and now they are bored
Devil finds work for idle hands
Those damn ungrateful Cubans, why they didn’t mash up and destroy Government property in Cuba. Because they know what will happen to them, but here they can do what they feel like doing and nothing will happen to them. They are no good ungrateful people, they leave their country where they dont have any rights then come to another country and want to tell that country what to do. They bring their language and culture and we must bend to them and learn their language instead of them learning Engish before they come to an speaking country.
Que?
It’s nice that CBC have something to do to earn that uniform, other than be heavy handed in trying to inspect luggage of residents who have nothing to declare.
Repairs to the fence? Sounds like there may be a few more “ in the community” then there were before 🤣.
Migrants? When I legally flew to Grand Cayman from Canada with a work permit I was a migrant. Had I floated here illegally, would I still have been considered the same?
Hire a couple of skiffs and send them on to Honduras where they can continue their trek.
If we do that it will encourage more to come. Instead we should be sending them to Rwanda to be processed.
Nah, cheaper to send them on.
Nah. We wouldn’t be able to keep up with demand and it would piss off the Americans. You seen the cost of boats?
Our losses on housing and repatriation transport are already certain and only booked with the purgatory status quo. Pay-to-play conveyance to Nicaragua on CAL, solves 3 problems. Miami or Cuban patrons can buy the tickets for relatives, etc, it’s a profit center waiting to happen, with Cayman-borne costs and human strife eliminated. Cuba is happy, and we shouldn’t pretend to be so certain all voyagers will continue on to USA, not all do.
Not if we cash in Eric and Ju Ju’s air miles.
How many does a Max 8 hold. Under an hours flight
They have flights now from Cuba to Nicaragua, why they DON’T take them Fights