The deportation of illegal immigrants from Sint Maarten is a topic that lots of Sint Maarteners are talking about. "I am a foreigner in my own country" or "my people are a minority on their own island" are phrases often heard. These phrases are, without a doubt, facts. But why are Sint Maarten…ers so outspoken on this topic?
Sint Maarteners feel that they are loosing grip with their own culture (foreign music, foreign bars, celebration of foreign holidays etc). Sint Maarteners are feeling that they are not respected in their own country. Sint Maarteners feel that jobs are "taken" away by foreigners. Sint Maarteners feel the cost of living going up, while there are a lot of foreigners not paying their fair share of taxes.
There are many more points, but let's elaborate on the last point. If Sint Maarten has to pick up a tab for health care costs totaling to some Ang 4.000.000,00 every year, if Sint Maarten has a problem with criminal foreigners being a burden to our understaffed police force and prison staff, if Sint Maarten has a problem with balancing a budget and yet can not collect wage taxes or income taxes from illegal workers than we should debate out of a financial point of view if Sint Maarten would indeed be better of when the government starts to deport illegal immigrants from Sint Maarten.
The statement is: Sint Maarten has to deport 20.000 illegal immigrants who are a burden to the use of our collective tax money and who are filling a lot of vacancies that for example our own youths could fill legally and therefore contribute to increase our collective tax money.
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