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05-15-2009, 04:20 PM
The director of the Gender Studies Center at the INTEC University, Lourdes Contreras, is speaking about her recent deportation from US territory. A women's activist, Contreras says she traveled to Miami for a connecting flight to Jamaica, where she was due to take part in a conference on "gender and governance." However, Contreras says that three Immigration officials stopped her and began to question her without revealing their reasons for detention. She added that while in Miami her visa, that would have expired in 2017, was revoked, she was told to get a new passport and deported back to the DR. Immigration director Major General Jose Anibal Sanz Jiminian said that Contreras would have to request an official explanation from the US State Department via the DR's Foreign Ministry.
Contreras is married to leftist politician Narciso Isa Conde, who protested that his wife was kept in isolation for 17 hours without explanation and then deported.
David Searby, press officer for the US Embassy in the DR, said: "As a general rule, the US Government does not discuss individual cases of travelers who have been refused entry to the United States. Any decision to refuse entry for a person into the United States is done strictly according to US law".
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Contreras is married to leftist politician Narciso Isa Conde, who protested that his wife was kept in isolation for 17 hours without explanation and then deported.
David Searby, press officer for the US Embassy in the DR, said: "As a general rule, the US Government does not discuss individual cases of travelers who have been refused entry to the United States. Any decision to refuse entry for a person into the United States is done strictly according to US law".
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)