re: #111 aatharuv

Racism is the only reason — Bahamians have had visa free access to the US as long as they enter through one of a couple of airports in the Bahamas (which have US border patrol onsite where they clear US immigration on foreign soil), and have a current police clearance certificate from the Bahamas.

It seems to me that restationing some of the appropriate people from US Border Patrol in the Bahamas (who know any procedures) to seaports in Florida might be a more appropriate and humane way to solve the problem of Bahamians without visas. Visas which 99% of the time they didn’t need to enter the US anyways, especially in a situation where 70,000 Bahamians are now homeless due to the hurricane.

And maybe also keeping a line to the Royal Bahamian Police to see if any of the people in question are otherwise inadmissable to the US to satisfy any legitimate security concerns.

Yes, I read that yesterday. And they were turning away people who had exactly that, in an emergency!!