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Feinstein, Grassley Release Report on Strategies to Prevent a Security Crisis in the Caribbean

September 25, 2012

Feinstein, Grassley Release Report on Strategies to Prevent a Security Crisis in the Caribbean

Source: United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-chairs of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today released a bipartisan report entitled Preventing a Security Crisis in the Caribbean that provides recommendations for Congress and the Obama Administration to enhance current security efforts in the Caribbean.
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The report recommends:

  • An assessment by the State Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of where Sensitive Investigative Units are most needed in the Caribbean. Jamaica, with the fourth highest murder rate in the world, should be considered a top candidate for one of these units.
  • Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should send a full criminal history of all deportees to authorities in the Caribbean so they are aware of the return of any criminals or drug traffickers. Caribbean countries’ authorities do not currently receive a full criminal rap sheet from ICE on deportees returning home.
  • United States technical assistance to the countries of the Caribbean to support the drafting of asset forfeiture laws and laws controlling precursor chemicals used to make illegal drugs.
  • The integration of Puerto Rico into working level meetings held between the State Department and countries in the Caribbean on security and narcotics issues.
  • Strong support of Haitian counternarcotic efforts.
  • Strengthening of U.S. anti-money laundering laws.
  • Continued extradition of drug kingpins from the Caribbean to the United States.
  • The return of DEA helicopters used in Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos to the Exumas Islands in The Bahamas.
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