EXTENSIVE QUESTIONING, BY AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT, OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN CITIZENS ARRIVING FROM CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORT-ISSUING STATES CONFIRMS HEIGHTENED U.S. INTEREST IN NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS

We have received multiple reports from the Caribbean, of local native-born West Indians being interrogated at length by American law enforcement agents, when they arrive in the United States on visits, for business or pleasure. Many of these individuals have complained to their national leaders, upon their arrival back at home, and remarked upon how much knowledge the questioners had, regarding their countries' internal affairs. While I assumed the questioning focused on the beleaguered Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passport sales programs, we now see that the U.S. is alarmed about the possibility that Human Trafficking in the Eastern Caribbean states has an American impact, and I share those concerns.

If you read my recent article, U.S. GOVERNMENT REPORT CLASSIFIES SAINT LUCIA AS ELEVATED THREAT FROM TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, SEX TRAFFICKING AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE AMERICAN 2021 COUNTER-TRAFFICKING ACT, you know that the United States is now regarding criminal Human Trafficking offenses occurring in, and through, Saint Lucia, as deserving of a designation confirming that situation as elevated, and issued a warning through the U.S. State Department.

Is there Human Trafficking, from the Caribbean, into the United States, or are citizens of Caribbean states, engaging in such criminal conduct here? Obviously, there are now multiple reasons why American law enforcement regards citizens from that region as a potential National Security threat, and CBI fraud, money laundering & corruption is not the only reason for their concern.