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Hulse Says No Rush Of New Citizen-Voters Permissible
posted (January 15, 2020)
So, while Immigration and police try to figure out what they will do with this caravan of migrants, Godwin Hulse, the substantive Minister of Immigration, says that the politicians in his party will not be able to bypass the checks and balances for nationality applications for potential voters.

You'll remember that this issue came up last week when scores of illegal immigrants started showing up to the constituency office of the UDP standard bearer, Dianne Finnegan, hoping that she would be able to aid them to get their immigration status regularized.

Well, when the press asked Hulse for his thoughts on the possibility that politicians from his party may attempt to fast track nationality applications for their constituents, he made it clear that their influence doesn't provide any shortcut. Here's how he explained why:

These checks and balances that Hulse was referring to are contemplated to insulate the nationality application process against fraud.

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