Dominican society may have to receive eight sex offenders who were rounded up in New York City and are currently awaiting their deportation hearings. El Caribe says the eight were arrested during “Operation Predator” and, according to the paper, had been sentenced to serve time and were free on bail at the time of their arrests. Michael J Garcia of the National Security Agency told a press conference that immediate deportations hearings would be held. Operation Predator, which covered the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, has spawned charges of rape, sexual abuse of minors and other forms of misconduct against the men in custody. According to a signboard in the photograph that accompanies the story, there were 31 arrests made in the operation. The rearrest of this group highlights one of the weakest points in the United States judicial system: the ability to “make bail.” All of those apprehended in Operation Predator were free on bail. The authorities in New York did not reveal the nationalities of all of those arrested, but the eight Dominicans’ nationality was noted next to their pictures. Martin Horn, the commissioner of conditional liberty (bail) in New York, said that “these individuals have abused the privilege of being in our country.” Meanwhile in France, a man and six women were arrested as part of a prostitution ring in Orleans, according to the French Press Agency. The man was imprisoned on charges of “serious pimping” and had already served four years on similar charges in Guadalupe. The six women, whose ages ranged from 15 to 50 and which group included the accused man’s wife and daughter, were charged with “active sexual provocation.”