The latest "guesstimate" that I have seen is that we have in this country about 300,000 illegal Venezuelans living here. This is in stark contrast to the American figures which say that they have 22,749 illegal Venezuelans. Incidentally, the same official report says that there are 1,197 Trinbagonians eligible for deportation from the USA.
So? How come we have more than ten times more illegal Venezuelans here than there are in the States? I mean, I could understand it if we had 3 or 4 times the American number. After all, we are (a) that much closer, and (b) easier to get into. But more than ten times?!? Something is wrong here. Do you trust the American figures? As I understand it, most of the illegal Venezuelans have gone to Columbia, Panama and other Spanish speaking countries in Latin America. This makes sense as most people would want to go where they could speak the language.
It has been reported that a little less than ten million Venezuelans have fled their country - which was one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America. That this speaks (nay, shouts) volumes about Maburro's mismanagement speaks volumes, but it still does not answer how many illegal Venezuelans that are here.
I ask the open ended question: is it that the Trini authorities have used the fact that so many Venezuelans have fled their homeland to make excuses as to why things here are not good? In other words, is there no real evidence that the illegal Venezuelans have created unsolvable problems for us?And why, if this is a real problem, is the media not only not highlighting the problem, but not giving us the facts? Maybe it's because they think that we are dumb.
And are there other illegal nationalities here? If so, who and how many? Where are these others from?
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