The United States government on Tuesday through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) repatriated 46 former Dominican inmates after serving sentences in North American prisons charged with several federal crimes.
The group, consisting of 42 men and 4 women, arrived on a commercial plane with registration N332CK from the airline Kalitta Charter, with flight number 3554, from the city of Miami, Florida, United States.
To receive the 46 exreos, the authorities of the Directorate-General for Migration and Airport Security have set up a comprehensive security device in the northern part of the air terminal, as a preventive measure against the danger of some returnees.
According to the data provided, the deported nationals had committed a variety of crimes, criminal and federal, during their stay in the United States.
The returnees served their sentences for crimes such as drug trafficking, murder, sexual assault, money laundering, kidnapping and credit card counterfeiting, among other petty crimes.
Upon arrival at the airport, the Migration and Public Health authorities subjected them to Covid-19 detection tests and other medical examinations before boarding the buses that would take them to the headquarters of the Directorate General for Migration.
As part of preventive security measures, the ex-convicts are on board the aircraft that transported them to the country, handcuffed with chains on their hands and feet and escorted by members of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).) And Agents Marshall. .
So far this year 2021, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has deported 344 nationals to the Dominican Republic after serving their sentences in that country.
According to statistics, in 2020 the US government deported 1,419 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic after serving convictions in prisons in several US states charged with various federal crimes.
The deportations of Dominicans who have committed crimes in the United States are through extradition agreements signed by the 1910 government of the Dominican Republic and the United States and rectified in 2016.