Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s claims of cor­rup­tion with­in the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion—in­clud­ing al­le­ga­tions that for­eign­ers paid up to $50,000 for work per­mits and as much as $250,000 for cit­i­zen­ship doc­u­ments—have trig­gered fresh po­lit­i­cal back­lash, with for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les de­mand­ing why no ar­rests or charges have fol­lowed if au­thor­i­ties tru­ly pos­sess ev­i­dence of a large-scale rack­et.

Gon­za­les told Guardian Me­dia that dur­ing his near­ly five years serv­ing on the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil, re­ports of such a rack­et nev­er once came to light, call­ing the cur­rent al­le­ga­tions “wild state­ments for news head­lines.”

He is now chal­leng­ing the Gov­ern­ment to pro­duce re­sults.