CONSTERNATION IN CARIBBEAN CBI STATES AFTER TRUMP PLACES VISA RESTRICTIONS ON ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA

After delivering numerous warnings that the Caribbean states selling economic citizenships through programs that permit dodgy and dangerous applicants to acquire passports are a National Security risk to the United States, president Donald Trump, in a Presidential Proclamation yesterday, imposed visa restrictions on Antigua & Barbuda, and on the Commonwealth of Dominica. The stated grounds are the historical failure of those countries to require actual residence of their economic passport holders, through there are other serious issues, such as lack of due diligence, illegal sales, diversion of funds to China, that have been on the table and will now have to addressed.

Though Saint Kitts & Nevis. Saint Lucia and Grenada, the other three CBI and CIP jurisdictions, have not been named, it is expected, given the rhetoric we have seen from American officials, that they are all expected to receive attention shortly. Caribbean leaders, who have falsely assured their constituents that no adverse US action will occur, now hasten to spin their power to reverse this action, which has caused panic among West Indians, who correctly fear being shut out of travel to the US, for any purpose.