so i read this news in the morning:
Llegar?n desde Estados Unidos otros 80 dominicanos deportados
how does this process work exactly? those people travel on a separate plane filled only with deportees and police? how about if there is smaller number of people, say one or two? would they travel on a normal flight, in handcuffs, accompanied by the police?
who pays for this? USA or DR? it's not cheap to fly 80 people over and i know sometimes the groups are even bigger.
what will happen to them once they arrived? do they do more time or they are released at the airport and left to their own devices?
note that this is not a rant about a new set of criminals arriving to DR, i have genuine questions here.
It all depends:
Deportees that arrived to the country after having served their jail time and followed up by an immigration hold from there, are transported via a chartered or official plane (depending on how many and when) to their nationality country. In the case of the DR, they come directly from the jail system in the U.S. and are handed over to local authorities at the airport.
These folks are then processed by the local authorities and depending on their family links in the country let go to their families in wait or referred to a local program to re-insert them into the general population to avoid engaging in crime here as well.
The batch of prisoners are vetted first. That's to say that people that served time or convicted of a violent crime (robbery, murder, etc...) are "fichados" first. The ones that were convicted or served jail time for sexual crimes against minors or rape, aggravated domestic violence and such, are "fichados" and also must continue to report to a local extended parole officer assigned to them.
The batch of prisoners that served jail time of convicted of drug related offenses and depending on the gravity of the charges/amount/type of conviction/etc... Are also vetted and provided with a local program of assistance for illegal substance abusers.
Most of the cases are related to minor law breakers, like using fake documents, being illegal in the country after losing their appeals, etc... These cases are just recorded and there's no criminal record created other than their admission as deportees into the country.
Then there are those that are repeat offenders, that were once deported from the U.S. and try to get back in or were arrested there after being deported before. These guys are a special case type.
Deportees that were not in jail serving time and/or were in a judicial removal process, are allowed to self deport by a given date.
These come in a regular flight, like any other passenger.
Deportees DON'T face any additional jail time or cases once arrived to the DR. Only those linked to open cases in the DR do so.
For the most part, the majority of deportees are not hard core criminals , but people that held long term permanent residency status in the U.S. and in the past had pleaded guilty to minor offenses that now have been reclassified as eligible for removal by the DHS under the loosened guidelines of the DOJ and congressional bills enacted since.
