A former FBI investigator and international security expert said the recent rise in the travel advisory level in Turks and Caicos culminates from multiple factors, one of which may be the influx of foreign migrants. 

Bill Daly, who after his career in the FBI worked at two of the world’s largest international security and investigative firms, spoke with Fox News Digital about the U.S. State Department’s recent decision to raise the popular vacation destination to a Level 2 travel advisory due to higher levels of crime. 

Since the beginning of this year, Turks and Caicos has seen an influx of migrant rafts coming ashore.

As of Feb. 18, the country had intercepted four vessels in 2025, and authorities had detained a total of 296 “irregular migrants” in that time. On March 4, the State Department issued the new travel advisory.

They narrowly escaped 12-year prison sentences, and Turks and Caicos has since updated its laws to provide more leniency in such cases.