(15 Jun 2025)
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San Juan, Puerto Rico – 14 June 2025
1. People watching demonstration from apartment balcony and clapping
2. Demonstrators in street waving Puerto Rican flag
3. Sign reading (English): “Impeach Trump Make America Great Again”
4. Demonstrator putting a sticker on a wall reading (English): “ICE go home”
5. Jose Rodríguez, president of the Dominican human rights committee, talking to demonstrators
6. Demonstrators walking with flags
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Rodríguez, president of the Dominican human rights committee:
“Tomorrow is Father’s Day. Many fathers and mothers will not be able to embrace their children because the governor sold out our information (to ICE) and had them arrested. What we want is to gain support for our fight and to continue this struggle. We have several projects waiting for approval, always seeking the support of the Puerto Rican community, the international community, and the press to make the problems of migrants visible, not only in the United States. We salute all the people protesting there today, but also in Puerto Rico.”
8. Various of demonstrators with flags of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Annette Martinez Orabona, Executive Director of ACLU ( American Civil Liberties Union), Puerto Rico:
“We are out in the streets today to tell the government of Puerto Rico to stop being complicit with the illegal actions of the federal government and end the discrimination and detention of our immigrant brothers and sisters.”
10. Demonstrator holding sign reading (English): “No Kings”
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Annette Martinez Orabona, Executive Director of ACLU, Puerto Rico:
"Puerto Rico has an obligation to protect our brothers and sisters, and that is why we are here. We will not stand down until this happens. We are also demanding that the government of Puerto Rico approve the legislation that protects the rights of migrants."
12. Demonstrators marching
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Puerto Ricans took to the streets of Old San Juan on Saturday, in solidarity with demonstrations against President Donald Trump in the United States.
Protesters gathered in front of La Fortaleza, the office of Gov. Jenniffer González, a Republican who supports Trump.
They waved Puerto Rican, Haitian and Dominican Republican national flags and shouted slogans against the deportations from the US.
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents raided a well-known Dominican community in Puerto Rico, in a nod to Trump’s policies.
The arrests angered Puerto Rican officials and civil leaders who have created programs to help the island’s undocumented immigrants.
Jose Rodríguez, president of the Dominican human rights committee, accused the governor of Puerto Rico of “selling” the names and addresses of migrants with driver’s licenses to ICE.
“Tomorrow is Father’s Day. Many fathers and mothers will not be able to embrace their children because the governor sold out our information (to ICE) and had them arrested,” said Rodriguez.
Initially, the governor said that the president’s initiative would not impact immigrants in Puerto Rico.
However, she later remarked that the island “cannot afford to” ignore Trump’s directives on migrant arrests, emphasizing that federal funds are at risk.
An estimated 55,000 Dominicans live in Puerto Rico, although some experts believe the number could be even higher.
It’s unclear how many are undocumented.
AP Video shot by Alejandro Granadillo
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