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Sep 19, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Why is it that Guyana is accepting people deported from the United States who have committed no crime, have no connection to Guyana and, in some cases, may never have set foot in this country before. The government says they are non-criminal, vetted and skilled, and that they have voluntarily agreed to come here, but those assurances do not answer the larger question of why Guyana should become part of a system in which America exports its immigration problem to other countries.

This is not simply a case of six people arriving in Guyana, four from Afghanistan and two from Cuba, under a one-year arrangement involving the International Organisation for Migration. It is about a principle, and whether a country such as Guyana should lend itself to an international policy in which powerful countries remove unwanted migrants to countries that are neither their homes nor places with which they have meaningful ties.