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Decreases of alien smuggling to PR
posted on: Dec 7 2011 9:46 by RDugey. Viewed 34 times.
The number of undocumented between Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico travellers has decreased dramatically in the last eight years, according to statistics of the guard Costanera of United States.
In fiscal year 2004, this body arrested 11,956 people attempting to cross the Mona to reach Puerto Rico. Seven years later the figure does not exceed 1,000. During the fiscal year 2011, the federal authorities intercepted 932 people and in 2010 to 531, the lowest in the last decade.
The National Guard, Ricardo Castrodad, press spokesman explained that the decrease in traffic of undocumented immigrants responds primarily to the implementation of a new program to identify and prosecute persons seeking to enter the island in way illegal.
This initiative, known as the concept of test Biométrico,was implemented in the year 2006 and allows federal officials to take fingerprints u000aand photographs of the detainees. With this information and biographical data of the person, a file is created that compares to identify repeat offenders and detained with criminal record. Then it becomes part of a database.
Before the detainees repatriated without identification, an action which promoted recidivism, he indicated Castrodad.
Now the immigrants arrested for the first time are repatriated, but those who relapse face a process judicial.
Found guilty they face a maximum penalty of three months in jail and deportation.
An undocumented detainee on the second attempt after a deportation is exposed to two years in prison or a year of freedom supervised.
At the time, the federal court system has prosecuted more than 450 undocumented.
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