United States is using Dominican airports to evacuate people from Haiti

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Under the coordination of the United States Embassy in Santo Domingo, an average of around five flights a day are arriving from Haiti bringing United States citizens to the Las Americas International Airport (SDQ), where they are able to take connecting flights to the United States. These helicopter flights originate in Port-au-Prince.

Each flight brings in a dozen or more persons, and these folks are processed at a special office that was set up by the US Embassy in the terminal where the necessary formalities of immigration are dealt with. All these efforts are coordinated with Dominican personnel, especially agents from the Civil Aviation Board (CAB).

The efforts have been appreciated by the government of the United States as expressed by the message from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to President Abinader recently. The US...

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