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Sub descriptionUrban/Rural201720182019
Order to Leave ServedRural9598921851
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DATA IDENTIFICATION


Name
Number of illegal immigrants crossing into Belize
Indicator purpose

This indicator aims to describe an estimated number of illegal immigrants entering Belize for the purpose of economic reasons or safety purposes.

Abstract

Findings reveal that most illegal crossings occur through porous borders where lack of resources and manpower is limited. Certain gaps in the enforcement aspects clearly create an opportunity for the contribution of increase flow of illegal crossing into Belize. The data summarizes an estimate figure of order to leave served to illegal migrants.  The reporting period commenced on January 2017.

Data source

Department of Immigration and Nationality Services and Refugee Department

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Department of Immigration and Nationality Services and Refugee Department

Date last updated
30-JUL-2020
Periodicity

Annual

Unit of measure

Number

Other characteristics

N/A

DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used

Porous Borders is defined as an illegal border crossing, not defined under the laws of Belize as a legal point of entry. These points lack manpower and do not have clearly defined border markings.

A refugee is as a person owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion that because he/she is in such fear is unwilling to avail himself to the prosecution of that country and flees.

Irregular migration is the movement of persons that occur outside immigration laws, regulations, or international agreements governing the entry and exit of persons, whether transit or destination.

Order to Leave is an order for Prohibited immigrant to leave Belize within sixty days of entering Belize, and if the immigration officer thinks fit, by a specified vessel.

Disaggregation

The data collected was disaggregated by district, area, and period.

Key statistical concepts

The data collected was gathered on an incident-based database. Each case was processed based on specific circumstances in which an individual is processed either through the refugee dept., court or immigration and who may result in being served an order to leave.

Personal detainee forms were compiled by the enforcement unit for every illegal entry into Belize. The forms were assigned per incident-based and use in the court system whether charges were levied or OTL’S served.

Order to Leave and court procedures reflect the number of illegal entry and were compared with monthly situation reports to identify an annual number of illegal crossings.

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OTHER ASPECTS



Recommended uses

N/A

Limitations

The Department of Immigration and Nationality Services is limited in manpower and technology to structure a data-based system that can easily extract and calculate annual statistics for illegal crossing.

There is not an assigned statistician in the IT section that holds the responsibility to code and calculate data. As it remains, the department’s data records are reserved manually and some reports are calculated by excel.

Other comments

The metadata shown above was gathered from the Department of Immigration and Nationality Services and the Refugee Department.