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