Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said yesterday that Cabinet will soon announce several new initiatives to deal with the vexing issue of illegal migration, noting that the Carmichael Road Detention Centre is "bursting at the seams".
"It is a very important thing," he said of the reform, in the House of Assembly.
"It is to the point where, in some communities, people are on a knife's edge about this.
"It may be that some drastic measures will have to be taken unlike we have seen in recent years to try and bring this matter under control."
On Saturday, Royal Bahamas Defence Force officers spotted a Haitian sloop off Duncan Town, Ragged Island.
As a result, 105 Haitian migrants were apprehended, 76 men and 29 women.
Mitchell said the latest apprehension brings the total number of interdictions for August to 409.
He added that three Cubans were found at Wood Cay, near Mangrove Bush, Andros over the weekend.
But he said the Cubans were taken to Inagua, instead of the Carmichael Road Detention Centre.
"The detention center is unable to hold any more," he said.
"It is actually bursting at the seams. But we expect that a repatriation flight will take place tomorrow, which will remove half of those individuals back to Port-au-Prince."
Mitchell said that eight of the migrants who were recently apprehended are children, who were repatriated less than a month ago.
"So what we have is a revolving door going on here," he said.
"We believe there are Bahamians that are driving this smuggling effort, which is coming in here.
"We are sitting with intelligence chiefs and try and figure out how these things can be interrupted. Within a couple of days, I'm hoping, with the leave of the Cabinet, to announce some new initiatives with regard to documentation to try and stop new people from making applications in this country after just jumping off the boat."

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