Seems six asylum seekers arrived in the Turks and Caicos (four from Cuba and two from Columbia). They then proceeded to protest their detention in a novel manner, and lo-and-behold the UN High Commissioner for Refugees clears the way for four of them to stay and work in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
When you read this it will make you laugh how many times everyone insists that the illegal aliens’ novel protest method had nothing to do with expediting their case.
Here is the gist of the story from TC Weekly (it isn’t often we get reports from this part of the world). And, it makes me wonder what is up with these Cubans when we (US) are allowing thousands and thousands of Cubans into the US as refugees annually, why aren’t these guys on their way to America? Were they rejects?
FOUR of six immigrants detained in the Turks and Caicos Islands were granted asylum this week.
But this is not as a result of their shocking protest action, according to the Government s Border Control Minister.
They claimed that they were being denied basic human rights at Providenciales Detention Centre where they were being held, and retaliated by going on a hunger strike.
One other Cuban man and a Columbian were also being detained at the centre waiting on a decision from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) a UN agency mandated to protect and support refugees.
Minister of Border Control and Labour, Ricardo Don-Hue Gardiner, spoke about the issue during a post-Cabinet press briefing at the Arch Plaza in Providenciales on Thursday.
He said that he received reports from the UNHCR on the asylum requests of three of the Cuban men on Friday and the two others on Tuesday.
“As a result of those reports the Ministry of Border Control has made a decision to grant asylum following the recommendation of the UNHCR to three of the Cubans.
The two who were rejected on the first round can appeal. The UN will again tell us what to do!
“Should they appeal, those appeals will then go in the usual course to the UNHCR who would then advise us of having further investigated the claims.
“They will then advise us of what they think we should do, but then it again becomes the responsibility of the TCI Government to make a decision on those claims.
LOL! And, just so you understand (again!) that their tactic to draw attention to themselves did not sway the decision!
“The TCI Government does not lend itself to be swayed by those kinds of activities; we look to the facts that we ve been given and we take the decision based on those facts.
“It is coincidental only that the reports from the UNHCR were received on the same day of last Friday before these actions, and so they are in no way as a result of these actions.
So, these guys in detention had needles and string handy for their little protest….hmmmm! Wonder where they got the idea?