A Bermudan parliamentarian has condemned the United States' third-country deportee programme as a racially discriminatory policy, alleging that immigration enforcement officials are disproportionately detaining people of colour while simultaneously extending refugee status to white South Africans.
According to Antigua Observer, Chris Famous — campaign chairman of Bermuda's Progressive Labour Party and the territory's ambassador to CARICOM — made the remarks in a pointed critique of what he characterised as a racially targeted approach to US immigration enforcement.
Famous drew a direct contrast between the treatment of non-white detainees under the deportee programme and the preferential refugee protections reportedly afforded to white South Africans, arguing the disparity reveals an underlying racial bias in how US authorities are applying immigration policy.
As a senior figure within Bermuda's governing party and the territory's diplomatic representative to the Caribbean Community, Famous carries institutional weight behind his remarks, lending regional political significance to the criticism.
The comments add a Caribbean voice to growing international scrutiny of US immigration enforcement practices, particularly as third-country deportation arrangements have drawn increasing attention across the region.
