LAS AMÉRICAS AIRPORT.- The United States Immigration and Customs Service has repatriated 2,167 Dominicans in 2022, after having served sentences for the commission of different crimes, reveal statistical reports.
The reports establish that 1,111 served sentences for drug trafficking and another 1,56 were in prison for crimes, robberies and assaults, state fraud, document falsification, rape, kidnapping and other crimes.
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Many of them served sentences ranging from four, six, eight, ten and up to fifteen years in prison, especially those linked by the US authorities to drug trafficking, murder and kidnapping of people for payment of sums of money.
Their sentences were served in prisons in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, California, Philadelphia and other places in the United States, where it is said that hundreds of Creoles are still in prison serving sentences for the same causes.
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The 2,167 Creoles repatriated in the current year 2022, including 49 women, came on flights chartered by the Immigration and Customs Service and escorted by an agent of that agency. There were also repatriations on commercial airline flights.
Regularly, Dominicans who are repatriated from the United States, after being received at the Las Américas airport, are processed and filed by the authorities of Migration in the refuge center that the institution has in the community of Haina, San Cristóbal.
It was statistically revealed that this is the largest number of Creoles that the authorities have repatriated in the last four years, after serving sentences for various acts and crimes.
It is claimed that even in US prisons there are more than eight thousand Creoles serving sentences.
In some cases of those convicted, especially for drug trafficking, the US authorities have taken millions of dollars in assets and properties, arguing that they bought them with money from the sale of narcotics.
