Haiti - FLASH : 13,446 illegal Haitians deported in July
Lieutenant-General Maximo William Muñoz Delgado, who heads the General Directorate of Migration (DGM), revealed that during the month of July 2017, 13,446 illegal Haitians were deported, of whom 6,545 were intercepted in one of the 100 checkpoints (fixed and mobile) established in the border area at various unofficial crossing points. Haitians did not have paper or tried to penetrate Dominican territory with irregular or false documents. The other 6,901 Haitians were arrested during migration controls throughout the country. Haitians arrested are then transferred to a specialized center where they are identified and receive care and food before their repatriation by the migration services.
Muñoz Delgado, acknowledges that this is an unprecedented number of returnees over a single month, recalling that the average number of Haitian deportees usually varies between 5,000 and 6,000 each month.
Lieutenant-General Muñoz Delgado has announced that the Dominican migration services will open three new illegal foreigners' reception centers in Azua, Puerto Plata and Nagua, tourist areas where are found a large number of foreign nationals in an irregular situation, most of whom are of Haitian origin, irregular situation, most of whom are of Haitian origin,
