46.7% (6,582) of the 14,076 criminals deported by the US to 15 Caribbean countries from 1993 to 1997 are Dominicans, according to the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Jamaica is the second largest recipient nation of deported nations, with 34.3% (4,836), followed by Haiti with 7.3% (1,036). Most of those deported had drug trafficking sentences. The New York authorities have decided to discontinue the program whereby sentenced criminals were deported before completing their sentence after several beneficiaries of the program returned and were arrested for committing the same crime.
