Dominica confirms accepting Colombians under migration programme with US

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica Government on Wednesday confirmed that five Colombian nationals deported by the United States under the third-country nationals programme have since returned to their country.

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit told a news conference that Roseau had concluded all arrangements with Washington regarding the programme and that “the United States sent us a first list of people and we did not accept those names, and they subsequently sent us a second list of people to choose from.

“Normally, they give you a list to choose from and we selected five people. They’re all five Colombians and they came into Dominica and they’ve all left and returned to Colombia. So there were five Colombians who came in and in a quick time they left Dominica and they went to Colombia. It was very fast,” Skerrit told reporters.