Santo Domingo, RD.
The United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, for the acronym in English (ICE), deported 43 former Dominican inmates to the country on Tuesday after being convicted in that country’s prisons of committing various offenses.
The returnees were accompanied by members of the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) and Marshall agents, who handed them over to the immigration authorities at Las Américas International Airport.
The plane came from the city of Alexandria, Louisiana, United States.
Of the 43 deportees, 42 were men and only one woman. 20 of those who arrived on Mars served sentences for possession and trafficking in various drugs, 14 for violation of immigration laws, while the remainder were returned to the country for robbery, armed robbery, sexual assault, murder, theft and other crimes.
According to the data, so far this year 2021, this number has risen to 298 nationals deported to the Dominican Republic.
To receive them, members of Airport Security and Civil Aviation (CESAC), the National Police and the National Directorate of Migration and the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD) conducted an operation.
According to preliminary statistics, the ICE authorities repatriated more than 1,400 Creoles to the Dominican Republic in the past year 2020.