{"id":99942,"date":"2015-02-04T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=99942"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:07:02","slug":"haitians-swept-up-in-bahamas-immigration-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2015\/02\/haitians-swept-up-in-bahamas-immigration-rules","title":{"rendered":"Haitians Swept Up In Bahamas Immigration Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Andrea Bruce for the NY Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenson Timothee was walking down the street when a uniformed officer asked him a question that sends Bahamians of Haitian descent like him into a panic these days: Do you have a passport?<\/p>\n

Mr. Timothee, who was born in the Bahamas to illegal Haitian immigrants, wound up jailed in immigration detention for six weeks. He is one of hundreds of people swept up in a fiercely debated new immigration policy in the Bahamas requiring everyone to hold a passport, a rule that human rights groups say unfairly targets people of Haitian descent.<\/p>\n

Mr. Timothee had proof that he was born in the Bahamas, but because he had trouble obtaining his absentee father\u2019s birth certificate, his application for Bahamian citizenship was never completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI showed them that I had applied for citizenship, but they said that wasn\u2019t good enough; as far as they are concerned, you are not Bahamian, you are Haitian, and you need to get deported,\u201d Mr. Timothee said. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about Haiti.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kenson Timothee. Photo by Andrea Bruce for the NY Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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