Shenseea, a Jamaican musician, has urged US Vice President Kamala Harris to improve visa success rates for Jamaicans, as they share ancestry.
Shenseea, who migrated to the United States a few years ago, made the audacious request when visiting Belize over the weekend.
“Umm, Miss Kamala Harris, since mi just see a video that you’re actually of Jamaican descent, mi just a beg yuh one likkle favour: free up di visa fi wi deh,” she stated in a video shared to her social media.
She went on to say that she understands how stressful it is to be denied a US visa.
“Free up di visa likkle bit deh. I mean, mi memba when mi a try get visa, and mi get turn down one time and dat did just traumatizing fi me. Yeah. We like di sand, wi like di beaches, wi like di palm trees— but right yah now, wi waan see some snow! Just free up di visa fi di people dem.”
Harris, the Democratic nominee opposing Donald Trump for the presidency after Joe Biden withdrew, has Jamaican paternal roots.
Her father, Donald J Harris, was born on the island, and her four-times-paternal-great-grandfather, Hamilton Brown, immigrated to Jamaica in the 18th century when it was still a British colony. He named Brown’s Town in St. Ann after himself and is buried within St Mark’s Anglican Church.
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