Drugb posted:Visa approvals are also based on trends, the man clearly stated that Guyanese have not been abusing the visas by hiding away in America illegally.
Two years has passed and the coalition has been in power and yet the Ambassador isn't announcing any change in non immigrant visa policy, so even your argument falls flat.
The fact remains is that he made reference to 5 years ago being worse than the current period. The PPP was in power 5 years ago.
BTW by now the Immigration authorities can tell you how many people in 2016 entered the USA on visitor's visas and failed to return. This isn't some in depth sampling. They are typically given entry for less than a month and December 2016 has long since gone.
And as I stated the real reasons why Guyanese are less likely to remain illegally in the USA has nothing to do with Guyana. Its because Guyanese are now considerably less naïve about what life in the USA is about than they used to be.
Given that visitors' visas aren't typically issued to poor people its not likely that some one with a decent job in Guyana is going to risk a life of washing dishes and sleeping on sofas in the USA. They are now fully aware that this is a risk given that they have seen many deportees arrive, not all with criminal backgrounds. Guyanese living in North America are also more honest about their lives than they used to be. 2008 changed all of that.
So to be honest I don't think that either APNU nor the PPP can take any credit for that. You also forget that the PPP was in power for 23 years and so if the reference was to 5 years ago being a period where many Guyanese attempted to remain illegally its still the PPP which is being indicted.
I showed you data which showed how Guyanese migration to Barbados SOARED after 2000 even as immigration to that island from St Lucia and St Vincent dropped. This meaning that Guyanese had replaced those islanders as the source of cheap labor. This was during the PPP era.