The United States government on Tuesday repatriated a group of 54 former Dominican inmates convicted in that country’s prisons charged with drug trafficking, crime and other criminal acts while in that country.
The group was escorted on the same plane by members of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) and Marshall agents, who turned them over to the immigration authorities.
The plane arrived at Las Americas International Airport (AILA) from the city of Alexandria, Louisiana, United States.
With this amount, the number of nationals deported to the Dominican Republic so far this year 2021 has risen to 255, after serving sentences in US prisons charged with committing various criminal and federal crimes.
For the reception, the airport security and civil aviation authorities (CESAC), the national police and the national drug control directorate (DNCD) have put together a comprehensive security device.
Upon arrival at the airport, the 54 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 fifteen days, the United States immigration authorities deport a certain 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 taken to the detention center for deportation in Vacacional de Haina, in the province of San Cristóbal.
Migration, in that center, purges and interrogates the returnees, and if they have no current affairs with the Dominican justice, they are sent and handed over to their relatives.