Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds, has con­demned Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's state­ments on de­port­ing il­le­gal Venezue­lan mi­grants.

Hinds says the Op­po­si­tion Leader's state­ment was a "reck­less out­burst, which were in­tend­ed to play pol­i­tics and mim­ic Don­ald Trump. Is­sues of gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy, crime, so­cial co­he­sion and xeno­pho­bia, arise from her state­ments."

He added, "Her call for de­por­ta­tions of Venezue­lan mi­grants, le­gal or il­le­gal, fol­low­ing this un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent, gen­er­al­izes and “scape­goats” an en­tire group. Fo­cus­ing sole­ly on na­tion­al­i­ty, al­so risks over­sim­pli­fy­ing the very com­plex is­sues, in deal­ing with our mi­grant pop­u­la­tion."

He went fur­ther in adding not all Venezue­lan Mi­grants are here il­le­gal­ly, but whether le­gal or il­le­gal, im­mi­grants have al­ways been de­port­ed, once they breach the laws of Trinidad and To­ba­go.