The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE, for the English abbreviation) on Tuesday repatriated a group of 65 former Dominican inmates who had been convicted in prisons in that country, charged with several crimes while on North American territory .
This is the fourth group deported by ICE this year, 201 of the number of Dominicans brought to the country so far this year.
The plane that brought the ex-detainees back to the country arrived at Las Americas International Airport (AILA), from the city of Alexandria, Louisiana.
Upon arrival at the airport, the 65 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, the ICE authorities repatriated more than 1,400 Creoles to the Dominican Republic in the past year 2020.
Every fortnight, the United States immigration authorities deport a specified number of nationals from the repatriation list to the country.
From the airport terminal, the returnees were mounted on two buses of the Directorate-General for Migration and transferred to the detention center for deportees in Vacacional de Haina, San Cristóbal province.
In 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.