Chinese Entering Belize

By David North , October 13, 2010
If you think American entities sometimes have trouble enforcing the immigration law, you should hear about how some other countries handle the challenge.

This week's prime example features the small Central American nation of Belize, with China, Cuba, and Haiti all playing supporting roles.

If other countries' migration-management agencies did their jobs carefully, it could be quite helpful to us, because a lot of the people violating the immigration law in Belize, for example, don't want to be in Belize at all, they want to be on their way to the U.S. There are always, as the Border Patrol puts it, OTMs being captured trying to enter the U.S. from south of the border, (OTM = other than Mexican).

Belize (the former British Honduras) and the United States have some things in common, such as the English language, African American heads of government with U.S. law degrees, and a border with Mexico. Their Prime Minister is Dean Barrow, our President is Barack Obama.

Belize, with a population of about a quarter of a million, is probably the only nation on the Western Hemisphere mainland without a daily newspaper. But it does have two fiercely competitive television news programs, Channels Five and Seven, from which I have extracted the following immigration law enforcement story.


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