{"id":12226,"date":"2018-12-06T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:45:41","slug":"this-key-west-man-was-almost-deported-to-jamaica-the-problem-hes-from-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/news\/2018\/12\/this-key-west-man-was-almost-deported-to-jamaica-the-problem-hes-from-philly\/","title":{"rendered":"This Key West man was almost deported to Jamaica. The problem? He\u2019s a born U.S. citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peter Sean Brown says that he was detained for weeks and nearly deported him to Jamaica \u2014 even though he was born and raised in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown turned himself in for a probation violation in April, after testing positive for marijuana.\u00a0 Brown, 50, a U.S. citizen who was born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, ended up on the fast track to deportation to Jamaica \u2014 a country he had visited for one day while on a cruise years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told every jail employee that he was a U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia, the lawsuit states, but the only response he got was mockery<\/g>. Now he’s suing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Sean Brown says that he was detained for weeks and nearly deported him to Jamaica \u2014 even though he was born and raised in the United States. Brown turned himself in for a probation violation in April, after testing positive for marijuana.\u00a0 Brown, 50, a U.S. citizen who was born in Philadelphia and raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12232,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions\/12232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}