With Kingston stonewalling and Washington silent, New Jersey constituent Patrick Beckford has fired fifteen pointed questions at his senators and congresswoman — demanding the transparency two governments have refused to provide.

MONTEGO BAY,  Jamaica, July 5, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown | Caribbean Affairs |The questions Kingston will not answer are now headed to Washington.

Patrick A. Beckford, a Jamaican national residing in New Jersey, has written to United States Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, formally requesting congressional oversight of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the governments of Jamaica and the United States for the transfer of third country nationals (TCNs) — an arrangement negotiated in secret, confirmed only after it was exposed by the press, and defended ever since with semantics rather than substance.