The United States Immigration and Customs Service has repatriated a group of 80 Dominicans who have completed sentences in US jails for a range of crimes, 38 of them for drug dealing.
The deportees were met by members of the Migration Department, Officers from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), the National Investigations Department (DNI), National Police, and the Specialized Airport and Civil Aviation Security Corps (Cesac).
They were then taken to the Migration Office where they were processed and those with outstanding warrants in this country were detained.
As well as sentences for drug dealing, the deportees had also been jailed for murder, robbery, assault, document fraud, rape and other crimes. They had served their sentences in jails in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio and other places.
This group brings the total repatriated this year to 267, higher than at the same time last year.