TRINIS READY Protections for ‘Dreamers’
TO VOTE
liament. Overall, 150 candidates
will contest in the elections representing
19 parties. Analysts say
race voting will be a major factor.
“People trust people who look
like them, who are socially constructed
like them, people look at
those people are more trustworthy,
and it speaks to ethnic competition,
worldwide, as to which
ethnicity should prevail. So demographics
are important, the percentage
of each ethnic group in
the population is important, for
the reason I am trying to explain
here, people, in general, do not
rise above their ethnicity because
distrust is there,” Political Analyst
Winford James told the Guardian
newspaper.
The PNM occupies 23 of the
41 seats but analysts are predicting
a much closer race with an
Indo-dominated party gaining the
most seats in neighboring Suriname
and with the elections commission
set to declare the People’s
Progressive Party (PPP) in Guyana
the winner of the country’s highly
disputed elections, beset by widespread
allegations of fraud. A win
for the UNC would mean that Indo
parties would for the first time
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have been in control of the three
most resource rich countries in the
15-nation Caribbean Community
simultaneously.
The elections will be held without
any observers from the commonwealth,
the Organization of
American States (OAS) and possibly
even CARICOM with all citing travel
difficulties in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic and problems
arriving there in time to quarantine
team members before Aug. 10.
The UNC has accused PM Rowley
of sabotaging efforts to have
observers here, pointing to their
role in preventing alleged fraud in
neighboring Guyana.
“I think it is totally irresponsible
of the government not to allow in
observers for the democracy of our
country. We saw what happened in
Guyana. I think Dr. Rowley probably
has a plan to take the election
illegally, undemocratically. We continue
to call on the government to
bring in the international observers
to ensure transparency in the
process band in our democracy,”
Persad-Bissessar told the Newsday
newspaper.
Rowley said “these are difficult
dangerous times. We’re still in a
pandemic, it will take 14 days to
capsize everything we’ve done,” he
said.
The Aug. 10 polls would be the
latest five held so far in the bloc of
nations this year with Belize and
St. Vincent set for later this year.
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immigrants ‘an invasion of our country’
to caging young children at the
border, this president’s cruelty knows
no bounds.”
She said attacking DACA recipients
“is the latest move of an unpopular
president facing electoral defeat.
“In an attempt to excite voters, who
relate to his pattern of xenophobia and
racism, he has issued this policy as a
cheap dog-whistle,” the congresswoman
said. “DACA recipients are Americans,
plain and simple.
“This president said that he would
put ‘Americans First,’ but he has repeatedly
shown us that the only Americans
he is interested in defending are
the ones who share his background,”
Clarke added. “I will continue to stand
by our beloved ‘Dreamers’, even when
this administration refuses to.”
Acting US Secretary of Homeland
Security Chad F. Wolf announced
on Tuesday that in response to the
Supreme Court’s decision, the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) will
take action “to thoughtfully consider
the future of the DACA policy, including
whether to fully rescind the program.”
In the interim and to address “serious
concerns with the policy,” Wolf
said in a statement that DHS will make
a number of changes to DACA immediately.
He said DHA will “reject all initial
requests for DACA and associated applications
for Employment Authorization
Documents; Reject new and pending
requests for advanced parole absent
exceptional circumstances; and, limit
the period of renewed deferred action
granted pursuant to the DACA policy
after the issuance of this memorandum
to one year.”
“As the department continues looking
at the policy and considers future
action, the fact remains that Congress
should act on this matter,” Wolf said.
“There are important policy reasons
that may warrant the full rescission of
the DACA policy.”
Wolf said the new memorandum
outlined “four areas of concern: Concern
about whether, as a matter of policy,
continuation of a broad, class-based
deferred-action policy like DACA should
be resolved by Congress; concern about
whether any discretion to not enforce
the law or afford deferred action should
be exercised rarely and only on a truly
individualized, case-by-case basis; concern
that the existence of a program
like DACA may send mixed messages
about DHS’s intention to consistently
enforce immigration laws as Congress
has written them; and, concern that
the existence of a program like DACA
may encourage individuals to take a
perilous journey to this country, needlessly
endangering children.”
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