104 Dominicans living in the US illegally to be served with eviction notices- PM Skerrit confirms

Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said his government has been advised by the United States government that 104 Dominican nationals will be served with eviction notices to be deported.

He made the announcement while delivering remarks at a press conference on Monday.

According to Mr. Skerrit, presently there are about “3 or 4” 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.”

“They are not in the position to give the names until those persons would have been in their custody,” he stated.

He said Dominica’s Embassy in Washington is in touch with the state department, which shares information with his government.

The Prime Minister mentioned further that the Government of Dominica has elevated the filing of the position of counsel general in New York as priority.

“So anybody who is interested in the job you can apply to the Counsel General of Dominica to the United States,” Skerrit noted.

Skerrit pointed out that a US citizen is not eligible to hold that position.

“That position is very crucial in coordinating the state department and the various state agencies in processing Dominicans who have to be deported,” he said.

Presently, President Donald Trump is carrying the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.

Since his inauguration on January 20, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 3,500 unauthorised immigrants across the US and have started sending deportation flights carrying migrants back to their country of origin.