Santiago – The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has underscored what she describes as “the fruitful joint work” carried out with the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in support of the sustainable development of regional countries. Bárcena addressed the 5th anniversary of the OECD’s Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean on Friday, paying special tribute …
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Sir Ronald Sanders.
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own)
By Sir Ronald Sanders
Not vaccinating illegal migrants against the coronavirus would be a fatal mistake in every country. Unvaccinated persons pose a real threat to subduing COVID-19 and will delay the opening-up and recovery of economies.
There are two issues related to this matter. First, governments may be reluctant to inoculate illegal persons for fear that, by doing so, they will create attractive circumstances for more persons to enter and remain illegally on their shores. Second, illegal immigrants may be reluctant to be inoculated because of concerns about exposing themselves to arrest and deportation by police.