Dominican Republic

ESPN has now completely deleted its story claiming that NFL player Mike Pennel is a suspect in a murder case in the Dominican Republic.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) special agents detected a suspicious target of interest near Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico, which was later identified as a 30-foot rustic vessel. The rustic boat contained 40 migrants headed for the island. The occupants were apprehended and removed from the disabled vessel.

For the first time, the number of Chinese migrants has surpassed the number of Dominican-born residents in New York City.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations officers (AMO) worked with the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents to interdict a maritime smuggling event off the western coast of Puerto Rico. The operation resulted in the apprehension of 64 illegal aliens attempting to make landfall on the island.

Judge Melissa DuBose ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release an illegal alien who is wanted for murder.

Another international sports tournament victory for Team USA means yet another disgruntled and vanquished foreign player.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will visit the Dominican Republic on Wednesday amid Operation Southern Spear’s fight against drug trafficking.

A nearly completed mosque in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, attracted a crowd of Christian protesters and prompted the government to halt construction this month after evidence surfaced that its construction may not have obtained the proper permits.

The Dominican Republic’s National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) revealed on Monday that it has seized 806 packs of what they believe is cocaine in a joint drug-trafficking bust operation with the United States as part of Operation Southern Spear.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced on Monday that it had plans to open four new embassies in Latin America by the end of the year and over ten new consular offices in Europe – in part at the expense of Ukraine’s embassy in Cuba.

Officials in the Dominican Republic said on Thursday the death toll from Tuesday’s tragic collapse of a popular nightclub has grown to over 200 people.

Former Major League Baseball pitcher and World Series champion Octavio Dotel was reportedly pulled from the rubble of a collapsed Dominican nightclub on Tuesday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal alien with prior drug trafficking convictions on Wednesday in Philadelphia, and she was not happy about it.

A missing University of Pittsburgh college student’s hometown sheriff has named a person of interest in the case five days into a search for the young woman.

Twenty-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki who went missing on Thursday while vacationing in the Dominican Republic on spring break possibly died by drowning, authorities say.

Officials have launched an extensive search for a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing on Thursday in the Dominican Republic.

ICE has deported a Dominican national who is wanted for human trafficking and the deaths of three children in the Dominican Republic.

A senior State Department official confirmed that the State Department has granted foreign spending freeze waivers for Haiti.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

ICE scooped up a convicted murderer who was paroled by authorities in Massachusetts after serving only 17 years of a life sentence.

A Spirit Airlines flight was battered by gunfire while it attempted to land in Haiti on Monday, leading to an injured flight attendant and a diversion to the Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic plans to implement an “immediate” program to deport as many as 10,000 migrants per week, mostly Haitians.

U.S. authorities seized a $13 million luxury plane used by Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has officially been charged with sexual abuse in the Dominican Republic.

An illegal alien, wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic, has been found living in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts.

Philadelphia’s population has been shrinking for years, but one segment has been soaring, with numbers showing that immigrants are growing.

An illegal alien accused of trafficking fentanyl in Massachusetts is also wanted for murder in his native Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic said the United Nations had not consulted it to create a “humanitarian air bridge” to Haiti.

The Dominican Republic’s Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez said on Wednesday that his country will continue to deport illegal Haitian migrants, rejecting a United Nations request that urged the country to stop “forced deportations” of Haitian citizens.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resurfaced in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, having disappeared from public view after a meeting in Kenya.

Haiti’s neighbors scrambled to increase patrols, build border fences, and recall their diplomatic missions as violence escalated on Monday.

Voters in New York oppose President Joe Biden’s migration, a top Latino talk show host told New York Mayor Eric Adams.

An illegal alien, accused of murder, is among the roughly 2.2 million illegal aliens released into the United States under the watch of President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

A 42-year-old woman aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas was rescued after spending more than 45 minutes in the water.

A Dominican professional basketball player named Óscar Cabrera Adames has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 28, according to reports.