Five British Vir­gin Is­landers liv­ing in the Unit­ed States are among more than 1.4 mil­lion peo­ple tar­get­ed for de­por­ta­tion un­der the cur­rent im­mi­gra­tion crack­down.

This is ac­cord­ing to the U.S. Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE) En­force­ment and Re­moval Op­er­a­tions (ERO) No­vem­ber 2024 De­por­ta­tion List, which was re­cent­ly re­leased.

The list ti­tled, “Non-cit­i­zens on the ICE Non-de­tained Dock­et with Fi­nal Or­ders of Re­moval by Cit­i­zen­ship”, de­tails the num­ber of in­di­vid­u­als from var­i­ous coun­tries who face de­por­ta­tion or­ders in the U.S.

“As of No­vem­ber 24, 2024, there are 1,445,549 non-cit­i­zens on ICE’s non-de­tained dock­et with fi­nal or­ders of re­moval,” the doc­u­ment stat­ed.

While ICE has not dis­closed case-spe­cif­ic rea­sons pre­vent­ing the im­me­di­ate re­moval of cer­tain in­di­vid­u­als, the agency cit­ed var­i­ous fac­tors, in­clud­ing le­gal re­lief from de­por­ta­tion.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, 15 coun­tries have been clas­si­fied as un­co­op­er­a­tive in ac­cept­ing de­port­ed na­tion­als, while 11 oth­ers are at risk of non-com­pli­ance. —TOR­TO­LA, British Vir­gin Is­lands (CMC)