Santo Domingo, RD.
The United States government on Tuesday repatriated a group of 62 former Dominican inmates who had been convicted in that country’s prisons and charged with drug trafficking, crimes and other criminal acts while in North American territory.
Those returnees came on a plane chartered by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, and escorted on the same plane by Marshall agents and other agencies.
The group of 62 returnees consists of 60 men of different ages and two women who are serving sentences in different prisons in the United States.
This is the second group of citizens deported by ICE this year, the first being 64, rising to 126 of the number of Dominicans deported.
Upon arrival at the airport, the returnees complied with the health protocols against Covid-19 set by the airport authorities in the country’s terminals.
They served sentences in North American prisons, charged with drug trafficking, murders, assaults, money laundering, kidnappings, arson, forgery and other federal crimes.
According to preliminary statistics, United States immigration and customs control authorities repatriated more than 2,000 nationals to the Dominican Republic in the past year 2020.
Every 15 days, the immigration authorities of the United States deport to the country a certain number of citizens on the repatriation list after serving their sentences in the prisons of that country.
From the airport terminal, the 62 returnees were mounted on two buses of the Directorate-General for Migration and transferred to the Deported Retention Center in Vacacional de Haina in the province of San Cristóbal.
At that place they are purged and questioned by the immigration services and if they have no current affairs with the Dominican justice, they are handed over to their relatives.