UPDATE: All 27 illegal immigrants caught on Peter Island repatriated
The total number of suspected illegal immigrants detained at Peter Island was 27 following three operations. Eleven were captured before noon on Sunday March 17, 2013 and a further 12 later on the same day and then 4 on Monday March 18, 2013.
25 of the illegal immigrants, which included 24 Haitians and 1 Dominican Republic national, were taken back to their respective countries on Thursday March 21, 2013.
"We just have to pay the bills now, we paid some of them," said Mr Jennings but declined to disclose what the costs are.
The suspected illegal immigrants, after being apprehended on Peter Island, were transported to the Road Town Police Station where they were screened and handed over to Immigration personnel.
“Interviews with the individuals suggest that they were dropped off at night by boat, believing they were on St John in the USVI,” the Royal Virgin islands Police Force (RVIPF) had stated in a press release.
See previous article posted on March 21, 2013
Illegal Immigrants being repatriated today, March 21
BEEF ISLAND, VI- Immigration Department has started the process of repatriating the illegal immigrants apprehended on Peter Island following a joint operation among the Royals Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), HM Customs and Immigration Department on Sunday March 17 and Monday March 18, 2013.
Several of the illegal immigrants were taken to the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport this morning, March 21, 2013 reportedly to be taken back to their homeland.
This news site was not able to secure a comment from Immigration Department at post time.
However, Sergeant Carl Mason of the RVIPF was able to confirm that indeed the Haitian nationals and one person from the Dominican Republic are being repatriated today, however, the two Cubans still remain. He noted that was all he could have stated since the matter stopped being a police one once handed over to Immigration Department
The total number of suspected illegal immigrants detained at Peter Island was 27 following three operations. Eleven were captured before noon on Sunday March 17, 2013 and a further 12 later on the same day and then 4 on Monday March 18, 2013. Three men and 1 woman of Haitian descent were the last apprehended, according to the RVIPF in a press release.
The suspected illegal immigrants were transported to the Road Town Police Station where they were screened and handed over to Immigration personnel.
“Interviews with the individuals suggest that they were dropped off at night by boat, believing they were on St John in the USVI,” police said in the press release.
Virgin Islands News Online will keep you updated as new information comes in.
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Ur day will come continue to b happy for a next man fall .. Can u is a a$$$$
I will continue to pray that their countries get better to avoid their many struggles such as having to risk their lives just to survive. We take so much for granted here in BVI, but let us always be cognizant that we are not exempt from what our brothers and sisters are experiencing in Haiti or Dominican Rebublic. The day may come again for us . We did it before in the USVI and Dominican Republic to survive just as these pictured here are trying to do.
Do you see how it works? What welcome would they get in any country in the world arriving by illegal means? And you best believe that for everyone one we catch there are at least one who get away, perhaps more.