Senator SESSIONS and I arrived in the Dominican Republic on April 15. 2006. and met for a team briefing with Peter Reilly of the DEA. Andy Diaz of the FBI. Michael Garuckis of the State Department. Jeff Radgowski of the Coast Guard and Timothy Tubbs of the Department of Homeland Security regarding issues of drug trafficking and immigration. We were told at this briefing that the Dominican Republics long border with Haiti. combined with its overstretched law enforcement agencies and geographic location in the Caribbean. make the country a prime location for drug traffickers. Although the Dominican Republic is not a major drugproducing country. it nonetheless acts as a transit point for cocaine and heroin bound for the United States from Colombia and Venezuela.
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