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By Prince Moore
The Jamaican authorities have reportedly initiated a roundup of Haitian migrants and asylum-seekers across the island in preparation for a mass repatriation to Haiti.
Radio Jamaica News obtained footage of Haitians at the Bound Brook wharf in Portland on Wednesday night being boarded onto a Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard vessel awaiting return to Haiti.
Attorney Malene Alleyne, founder of human rights group, Freedom Imaginaries, says the group includes Haitian parents of Jamaican-born children and other relatives.
Ms. Alleyne says family members who are being left behind were not given prior notification of the mass expulsion.
"The family members who are being left behind didn't get even the dignity of an opportunity to say goodbye. And so we are receiving frantic calls from Jamaican family members wanting to know the location of their relatives and what will happen," she revealed.
Ms. Alleyne has called for the government to provide the public with information on the operation which separates families.
"I will repeat what I've always said, which is that we are now facing a rupture in the rule of law, a serious rupture in the rule of law. And the government has to be held to account. We need an investigation into the operation that's taking place today. And that investigation must include the numbers of families that have been separated, including children who are now left without their parents," she demanded.
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