The announcement from the Secretary of State Marco Rubio demands that countries along migratory routes do their part to stem the flow of illegal migrants to the United States. And for those who the US deems aren't doing their part, Rubio says they will have their visas cancelled. The release says it, quote, "(applies) to foreign government officials, including immigration and customs officials, airport and port authority officials, and others believed to be responsible for knowingly facilitating illegal immigration to the United States, including through failure to enforce immigration laws or establishing and implementing policies and practices that knowingly facilitate the transit of aliens intending to illegally immigrate into the United States via the U.S. southwest border." End quote. How will it affect officials in Belize? Well - we do know that there are immigration officers informally accused of facilitating fraudulent migration and we also know that some of them had already had their visas cancelled. And there may be more of that coming.

But, according to the CEO in the Ministry of Immigration Tanya Santos, at the policy and legislative level all that can be done, with many suspected illegal migrants incarcerated and returned to their countries of original - on even a suspicion of false migration. And indeed, many times they have been known to enforce to a fault, sending home visitors from Jamaica and Brazil who have staked every claim to legitimacy as vacationers.