Visa refusal and American intelligence on Guyana
Apr 17, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Even if you factor in applications from Cubans, Haitians and Chinese living in Guyana, the large percentage (almost 70 percent) of refusal for visitor’s visa for last year takes Guyana back to the 1980’s where there was a mere trickle of visa issuance.
If the US Embassy refused 70 percent of applicants for 2018 for non-immigrant stamps, it means that they are in possession of intelligence that guide the Embassy into the acceptance that Guyanese are fleeing and would renege on returning after their visit.
Very few countries see a 70 percent rejection. When that happens, the US concludes that recipients are going to stay illegally. Continue reading →
U.S. — Omar an unwitting pawn in Trump’s 2020 campaign strategy — By Mohamed Hamaludin
There were four words: “some people did something.”
They have launched a furious controversy that pits the President of the United States against a congressional newcomer in yet another example of the divisiveness that characterizes today’s America.
Rep Ilhan Omar
The words were spoken by one of two Muslim women elected to the House of Representatives last November, while she addressed a civil rights gathering organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on March 23. It was a 20-minute speech.
“For far too long, we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” Omar said. “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. So you can’t just say that today someone is looking at me strange and that I am trying to make myself look pleasant. You have to say that, ‘This person is looking at me strange. I am not comfortable with it, and I am going to talk to them and ask them why.’ Because that is the right you have.” Continue reading →
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