{"id":1123,"date":"2010-08-22T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2010-08-22T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T19:14:34","slug":"corruption-at-root-of-illegal-immigration-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/corruption-at-root-of-illegal-immigration-problem","title":{"rendered":"Corruption at Root of Illegal Immigration Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1125\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"simeon-hall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/simeon-hall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/simeon-hall.gif 166w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/simeon-hall-99x150.gif 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/>The Bahamas government&#8217;s recent appeal for illegal immigrants to leave the country must be &#8220;substantive&#8221; or it will become a &#8220;joke&#8221;, Bishop Simeon Hall warned yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Symonette, acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, last week ordered all illegal immigrants residing in the Bahamas to voluntarily leave the country or face immediate deportation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bishop Hall, senior pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church, claims that illegal immigrants would not be in the country in such high numbers without the &#8220;complicity of some corrupt persons in authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Illegal immigrants have corrupted many agencies in our Bahamas and this pronouncement by the Minister must have teeth or it becomes laughable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Hall, senior pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church, claims that illegal immigrants would not be in the country in such high numbers without the &#8220;complicity of some corrupt persons in authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}