NASSAU, Bahamas — Immigration Minister Brent Symonette indicated yesterday that the strengthening of the Department of Immigration will achieve what the prime minister noted on Monday, when he said there was a need for a special force to deal with illegal immigration, the Nassau Guardian reported October 12.
“We’re currently reviewing the whole setup at immigration and one of the issues will be to establish or strengthen the unit that is responsible for illegal immigrants, so we’re doing some internal changes at the moment for that,” Symonette said.
“It’s strengthening the unit that already exists. We already have people who deal with illegal immigrants and you report that on a regular basis where you have arrests and everything else, so it would just be strengthening that unit so it’ll be an ongoing exercise.”
The Immigration Act gives immigration officers the power to arrest or detain any person believed to have breached the act which includes unlawfully entering Bahamian borders. https://thenassauguardian.com/2018/10/12/symonette-immigration-forces-will-be-beefed-up/
