In the first six months of this year, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has repatriated 610 Dominicans who had completed sentences for drug dealing. Another 541 Dominicans were deported, having served sentences for other crimes.
According to data from Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo, those who had been sentenced for drug dealing served their sentences in jails in New York, Boston, Miami and Los Angeles.
Of those repatriated for drug dealing in the first six months of this year, 34 were women and 576 men.
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10 July 2019