Attorney: No action by police on deported migrants
ATTORNEY Criston J Williams on Friday told Newsday he had heard nothing from the police regarding an invitation to interview a Venezuelan deportee who had accused the authorities of breaking the law and crimes against humanity in recently deporting him and other Venezuelan migrants.
Williams’ law firm Quantum Legal is representing Juan Manuel Acosta, one of about 30 Venezuelans deported from Trinidad on August 13 after a High Court ruling by Justice Frank Seepersad that said refugees could be legally deported.
Williams’ colleague Blaine Sobrian on Thursday had told Newsday that in conducting mass deportations, the TT authorities had allegedly breached the Immigration Act (sections 41 and 42) by not following a prescribed legal procedure and the International Criminal Court Act (section 10) by committing a crime against humanity.
Sobrian wanted Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher to investigate possible violations by Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds and the Immigration Division. Williams said, “We are waiting on the Commissioner of Police to respond to us.
“He will avail himself to the commissioner to give a statement.”
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