Illegal Immigration has been an overriding issue in the TCI for years and it has been so for a number of reasons, the socio-economic factor being foremost among them.
It is no secret of the financial and social burden illegal immigration has caused to the Turks and Caicos, and it is also no secret of the financial struggles some illegal persons have endured on a personal level. The fact is a lot of illegal persons have struggled to make ends meet and to support themselves and others. And when they arrive here they tend to live in squalid conditions.
Many persons who have been regularized have since seen their standard of living gone up and they have disseminated into the community, but more and