Over $20K spent in 2 months to deport illegal persons– Hon Wheatley
Honourable Wheatley was at the time being interviewed by Mrs Karia J. Christopher on a new season of her programme, Real Talk, on Sunday, October 4, 2020.
“It is my responsibility to do my utmost best to make the local persons feel comfortable in their own homes. And, if they are home sitting down watching an expat going to work every day and they can’t make a dollar it is going to create problems down the road,” he remarked.
Illegal work is costing Government!
Hon Wheatley said when someone comes into the territory and engages in illegal work, it is costing the government.
He explained: “Illegal work in this country poses a very, very serious threat to this country and local persons will more than anyone else understand that real threat. If you are working illegally, which means you are not paying any taxes. What happens when you get injured on that job? That means the Crown must pay for all your expenses because we cannot leave you to die; we are very compassionate people in this country. We are not going to leave you to die like a dog because you got injured working illegally on a job.”
To further drive his point home, Hon Wheatley said: “When you come into this country illegally we have to pay to repatriate you. We have spent nearly $20,000 in the last two months alone having to send illegal persons back out of this country. That is tax payer’s money that can be used in a time like now for so many other things. So the illegal worker is really stealing from the government in more than one way and we as locals we find that offensive.”
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26 Responses to “Over $20K spent in 2 months to deport illegal persons– Hon Wheatley”
2. If a local working in an office under A/C and is laid off and see an expat going to clean house or yard tell me will they do it and stop creating problems down the road?
if the person came here to stay with someone and overstayed then that person should help with the cost
if the persons was smuggled into the country the person that smuggled them should pay(if you find them)
some folk residing here have so much deplorable things to chat;
yet them smuggling just to live here and all the chatty chatty you can get some to leave
the united states dollar have turned this once peacefully place into a lawless society
the illegal work always seems to be arranged by Belongers to exploit cheap vulnerable workers with of course, minimal avenue to complain given their status.
We lost way more than 20k in people moving business and selves away due to the problems here faced by legal expatriates and business in general.