Trying the ‘front track’

Today’s lead topic is re-cycled from 17 years ago. Why? Because I am utilizing my rarely-used right to be professionally lazy; and also because migration to the USA has been a powerful blight in our national lives for some three decades now.

America, the country the world loves to hate, has been a magnet for those Guyanese who managed the great escape into the exile of opportunity – real or imagined. These days we read weekly of the misbehaviour of some of those lucky immigrants-turned-citizens of Obamaland.

I speculate that many of them got there using the once-famous ‘back track’. I mean by false documents, paying off former consular officials, going to the Caribbean, Canada or Mexico and physically infiltrating American borders, arranged