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Venezuelan asylum-seeker: who is the refugee and who the fortune-hunter?

September 12, 2018

Venezuelan asylum-seeker: who is the refugee and who the fortune-hunter?
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Caribbean Network

12 september 2018 | Natasja Gibbs

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PHILIPSBURG – The sun is barely up when a team of mask-wearing men storm the construction site for Sonesta Maho. Their target: picking up undocumented Venezuelan laborers.

Situation Venezuela

devastating report

“But you also have to be honest as a member of the press, and acknowledge that most of the Venezuelans are economic refugees which impedes the asylum procedure.”“There is NO money to accommodate the Venezuelan refugees, let alone money to spend on them.” “We need help ourselves. There are plenty of children in Curaçao without food, clothes, or shelter.”

Human trafficking

Unit Mensenhandel (Human trafficking) 

Country affaire

https://caribbeannetwork.ntr.nl/2018/09/12/venezuelan-asylum-seeker-who-is-the-refugee-and-who-the-fortune-hunter/

Source: https://www.sxm-talks.com/?p=75896

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