Could it be that this island is an important hub for the deep state in the Caribbean?

Aruba is an island and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Curaçao. It measures 32 kilometres (20 mi) long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and 10 kilometres (6 mi) across at its widest point.[

For private aircraft passengers bound for the United States, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a full pre-clearance facility since 1 February 2001 when Queen Beatrix Airport expanded. Since 2008, Aruba has been the only island to have this service for private flights.

Arubas economy depends on tourism and offshore financial services. There is a Free Trade Zone on the island that has attracted the attention of manufacturing companies that have markets located in the United States and other American countries. Aruba has signed a tax treaty only with Holland, which gives access to other tax treaties in joint agreement with Holland. There is no legislation regarding bank secrecy in Aruba; however, property that is beneficiary of offshore companies cannot be revealed.

New tax legislation, introduced together with a new Netherlands tax Treaty, went into effect in 2003, in answer to international pressure on Aruba. This legislation abolished the distinction between offshore and onshore companies, even though it installed an exceptional scheme through which they maintain tax privileges on trade activities not realized in Aruba.

The distance to Little Saint James is 500 miles.