{"id":337076,"date":"2025-02-18T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=337076"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:07:25","slug":"pm-reveals-govt-is-working-on-documentation-for-dominican-deportees-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/pm-reveals-govt-is-working-on-documentation-for-dominican-deportees-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PM reveals gov&#8217;t is working on documentation for Dominican deportees from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_337054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337054\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-337054\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Skerrit-2-642x489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has revealed that his government is facilitating documentation of some Dominicans who are in custody in the United States (US) to be deported.<\/p>\n<p>A week into his second term, US President Donald Trump intensified his crackdown on immigration, building on his campaign promise of carrying out \u201cthe largest deportation in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since Trump\u2019s inauguration on January 20, 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 3,500 unauthorised immigrants across the US. His administration has also started sending deportation flights carrying migrants back to their country of origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it is now I have been told that there are about three or four Dominicans in custody to be sent home and we are facilitating documentation, because there are some people who have no documents because of the length of time they are in the United States and we have to provide them with travel document[s],\u201d Skerrit said during a press conference held on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cWe have been advised by the US government that there are about 104 Dominicans that they have identified who would be served with eviction notices to be evicted from the United States for various reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skerrit added, \u201cThey are not in the position to give the names until those persons would have been in their custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he said \u00a0Dominica\u2019s embassy in Washington is in touch with the US State Department, \u201cwhich shares information with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he announced that his government has elevated the filing of the position of counsel general in New York as a priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo anybody who is interested in the job you can apply to the Counsel General of Dominica to the United States,\u201d Skerrit explained.<\/p>\n<p>He made it clear that in order to hold this position, one cannot be a citizen of the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat position is very crucial in coordinating the State Department and the various state agencies in processing Dominicans who have to be deported,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has revealed that his government is facilitating documentation of some Dominicans who are in custody in the United States (US) to be deported. 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