107 Dominicans deported from the US arrive today, totaling 978 so far this year
LAS AMERICAS AIRPORT. -The United States Immigration and Customs Service reported the repatriation on Tuesday of a group of 107 Dominicans who served sentences for the commission of different crimes, 49 of them for drug trafficking.
The remaining 58 were imprisoned in different US prisons for crimes, robberies and assaults, forgery of documents, state fraud, sexual violations, for intentionally causing fires and other minor incidents.
After receiving a report from the US Embassy in the country, the airport and immigration authorities said that the dominicas will arrive in Santo Domingo in the afternoon, in a plane chartered by the Immigration and Customs Service.
Seven security agents of that organization will come escorting the repatriated locals and at the Las Americas Airport, they will be handed over to immigration officials and officials of the DNCD, DNI, J-2, National Police and the Airport Security Specialized Body (CESAC) ).
The military and police will tend a cordon on the north ramp of the airport terminal where the aircraft will be parked and the repatriated locals will be taken one by one from the plane to be mounted immediately on two buses.
From the airport, the group, which is the most numerous that has been repatriated so far this year 2019, will be at the Refugee Center for Repatriated and Detained Persons, where the authorities will proceed to purify them, sign them and then deliver them to their relatives.
However, those who in the country have pending judicial and police matters, will be delivered by Immigration to the agencies, for the corresponding purposes, according to the explanations offered by the airport authorities.
The reports show that the 107 dominicans served sentences ranging from four, six, ten, twelve and in some cases, up to fifteen years in prison in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, California, San Antonio, Texas, Massachusetts and other American places.
In those places, according to reports, hundreds of thousands of Dominicans still remain in prison for the commission of different crimes, most of them linked by the US authorities in the drug trade.
According to the statistical data handled by journalists who cover the source of Las Americas, with the arrival today of the group of 107 locals, the number of ex-convicts that the authorities send to the country so far this year rises to 978. present year 2019.
The data establish that more than 50 percent of them served sentences for drug trafficking in different parts of the United States, most of them in prisons in the cities of New York, Boston and Miami, respectively.
Source: El Nacional
