Recommendations that need to be explored include funding to expand or establish resettlement programs. These programs should be geared to setting up transition centers where individuals are afforded basic resources such as food. clothing and shelter. Job training programs and social service type institutions need to be reinforced in the region. since upon deportation. many of them drift into homelessness. and with no job prospects. they end up doing crime as a means of survival. There needs to be the creation of a system to track and monitor highrisk criminal deportees. In some situations criminals are repatriated and no formal processing takes place in the receiving country. In essence they are let loose into the community and there are no systems in place to track their movement in the receiving country. It is believed that there is a correlation between the increase in gang related activity in the region and deportees. These individuals often make their way back into the U.S. or form part of transnational organized crime units. I am glad to see that this hearing has been convened to explore ways this Congress can help our neighbors in the Region address this issue.
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Deportees drift into homelessness and crime as a means of survival.