British Overseas Territory Hits out at ‘Reckless’ UNHCR Over Human Trafficking

Captured boats that carried Haitian illegal immigrants in the Turks and Caicos Islands, on Jan. 28, 2019. Gemma Handy/AFP via Getty Images

A lawyer representing seven Sri Lankan asylum seekers who found themselves on a British overseas territory in the Caribbean has said they were treated “disgracefully” by the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

But the Turks and Caicos Islands’ (TCI) Minister of Immigration and Border Services, Arlington Musgrove, has in turn described the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as “reckless” and “misguided.”