Juffa calls on government to revive PNG’s immigration task force
27 November 2015
PNG TODAY
THE Papua New Guinea government has been called on to consider reviving the once vibrant Immigration Task Force - Rausim Alien - to clamp down on illegal foreigners and their illegal activities around the country.
Oro province governor, Gary Juffa, said this in light of the recent uprising in Lae and the arrival of the illegal boat people in Wewak, East Sepik Province.
It was established to control the movement of foreigners in the country and it exposed and uncovered many illegal activities.
It also led to the deportation of notorious foreigners with connections to prominent Papua New Guineans, resulting in millions of kina being recouped.
Rausim Alien was established in 2012 by the National Executive Council and operated for only one year, being disbanded in 2013 for unknown reasons.
Governor Juffa said that the underfunding and disbanding of such a vital task force raised eyebrows.
“Our Immigration laws are actually quite good,” he said, “it’s just that they are not administered or enforced adequately and the immigration department does not have the capacity.
“It needs to be revamped. We need more immigration officers. It needs to develop an intelligence and an investigative capacity to be able to get out there and conduct more investigations, inquiries, inspections and start prosecuting people.”
Governor Juffa also said that PNG is at risk of transnational crime and he wants the task force to be revived so there is some control over the movement of foreigners in and out of the country.
"If you are able to monitor the movement of people from certain parts of the world coming into PNG and one of those persons comes from a particularly risky portion of the world then you are able to intervene,” he said.
“Now that's not happening. I worked in this industry and I've gone back to review what's happening and I can honestly tell you that it’s shocking and it’s frightening.”
Do you reckon the globalists are trying to physically break down sovereign borders Robin or are they more intent on breaking down trade and economic borders, two fish from a different kettle?
The comment about illegal boat people arriving in Wewak is interesting. Where do they come from and where are they heading?
I've always thought that PNG was an obvious conduit for people smugglers to use as a way of getting into Australia but haven't come across evidence of it yet.
Posted by: Phil Fitzpatrick | 28 November 2015 at 12:31 PM
I guess one of the problems associated with maintaining commonsense controls over sovereign borders is that such measures continually run into conflict with globalist agendas designed to break them down.
Posted by: `Robin Lillicrapp | 28 November 2015 at 07:12 AM