Earlier this month the ministry of immigration launched its Biometric data sharing partnership with the US Embassy with an aim to improve border security and migration management between Belize and the US. We asked Immigration Minister Musa about it today and he further explained what this partnership entails.
Kareem Musa, Minister of Immigration
"So as you would have heard, a week prior to that, we launched the BDSP, which is the biometric data sharing partnership with the United States government. Subsequent to that, we agreed with the United States government to form a vetted unit that will comprise not only police officers, but immigration officers, and they will be targeting specifically, immigration offenses. So being in possession of fraudulent documents, that type of thing. And again, we can now utilize the BDSP to have very quick, reliable information getting back to us. And so similar to what you saw with the ANU it used to be the drug in the ADU, but then it became the anti-narcotics unit, which is a vetted unit that is also in conjunction with the US Embassy. We now have an immigration vetting team. Comprising immigration officers and police officers that will be working along with the US embassy."
