Policy change is the simple answer to the migration conundrum
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In certain countries, the path to citizenship for migrants is blocked and for good reason: to protect the native population. Instead, residency and work permits allow migrants entry to work and play.
It is time the Virgin Islands adopts this policy.
Citizenship is a sacred privilege. Giving that privilege away ‘’willy-nilly’’ is sheer stupidity.
There is no reason why an alien cannot reside for life in the Virgin Islands and die on the islands, on a resident permit.
Residents who have applied for citizenship up to this day need not be fearful.
There will come a period when a cutoff point is required.
What that means is that land rights and specific social and political privileges that citizenship confers become the reserve of ancestral and locally born natives only.
That would solve this concern in a heartbeat.
The only way a migrant without ancestral links becomes a citizen is through a special sitting of the House of Assembly and cabinet. Alternatively, marriage and adoption.
The human rights belief that all people have a right to migrate where they want and become full nationals is truly a fairy tale.
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