Santo Domingo.-The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has created a kind of “migratory panic”, with his hard -hand policy ads and that he would repatriate foreigners who have judicial problems.
It presents how repatriations as something exceptional, when the truth is that they are everyday, to the point that last year, in the administration of President Joe Biden, 3,292 Dominicans were repatriated by the Immigration and Control Service of Customs of States United (ICE).
That represents an average of 275 repatriations per month in 2024, so it is now necessary to see if that number will rise or decrease in this new Trump administration.
The United States usually repatriates these Dominicans in private airplanes at the service of ICE and disassembled handcuffs as a security measure until they are delivered to the Dominican authorities, which takes them by buses to the Haina detention Center to purify and verify that they have no accounts Earrings with Dominican justice.
In the weekend 86 Dominicans were repatriated, which are attributed to the Trump administration, but they are everyday almost every month.
Causes
Most of these deportees are sent to the country after serving sentences in the United States, most of them for drug trafficking, homicides, fraud, violations of migratory laws and other federal crimes.
The months of 2024 in which the largest number of repatriated Dominicans were recorded were October, with 528; November, with 541; September, with 364, and February, with 243.
Depuration
The expressidiaries who have no pending issues with Dominican justice are delivered to their relatives, while those that are detected that they have a criminal record in the country are sent to the Public Ministry for the corresponding purposes.
Those 3,292 repatriated in the last year of Biden, is more than double the 1,419 Dominicans deported by Trump in the last year of his previous presidential term, in which he also proclaimed “zero tolerance against illegal immigration.”
Although immigrant repatriations that inflict federal laws is a usual practice in the United States, including their handcuffed transfer until they are delivered to local authorities.
President Donald Trump has presented it as part of an exceptional hard hand policy against immigrants offenders of the laws.
Reactions
– Petro and Trump
The reaction of Colombian president Gustavo Petro caused Trump to threaten a series of sanctions, which made the Colombian government back and muddy to look for repatriated.
Other countries, the same story
Biden. Other actors have managed it as if it were something unusual, as is the case of Colombia, whose president Gustavo Petro refused to receive two US planes that carried some 300 repatriated.
In 2024, the last year of the Biden Administration, the US government repatriated 14,268 Colombians, a 45 percent increase in relation to the 9,866 repatriated in 2023, positioning that country in the fifth place among the countries with more repatriated citizens after Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
