US authorities deported 80 Dominicans yesterday, after completing their terms in different US prisons, most of them related to narcotics, according to a report in El Caribe. The deportees arrived at Las Americas International Airport on an airplane in the custody of the US Justice Department. They were taken to the Police Department and the National Drug Control Department for their registration and later were released. The group includes ex-convicts who have served time for drug trafficking, homicide, and other felonies. Police registries estimate that there are approximately 31,000 deportees in the DR, 97% of them from the US.