{"id":24838,"date":"2012-08-20T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24838"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:03:12","slug":"over-300-haitians-repatriated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/over-300-haitians-repatriated","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 Haitians Repatriated"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24839\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24839\" title=\"haitians\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haitians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haitians.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haitians-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haitian immigrants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just over 300 Haitian migrants have been repatriated to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, since Tuesday after being captured in Eleuthera, Exuma, Abaco and New Providence in recent weeks, Director of Immigration Jack Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also assisted with the deportation of a number of persons of other nationalities who for one reason or the other [needed to be] deported from The Bahamas,&#8221; Thompson told The Nassau Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For [the Department of] Immigration this has been a very good week in terms of how we have executed and carried out these exercises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was unable to provide details on the number of people of other nationalities apprehended and repatriated as part of that exercise.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said the department continues to prosecute and deport many individuals on a week-by-week basis.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed further on the matter, Thompson said a &#8220;pattern change&#8221; has been observed in people coming to The Bahamas illegally, but did not disclose many details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to speak too much on that because I think we are on to something,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over 300 illegal Haitian immigrants captured in Eleuthera, Exuma, Abaco and New Providence in recent weeks were returned to Haiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[188,307,41],"class_list":["post-24838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-haitians","tag-illegal","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}