SANTO DOMINGO.- The General Directorate of Migration (DGM) deported 15,343 foreigners surprised in the country in an irregular condition during the first 15 days of this February, which elevates 142,378 the number of undocumented undocumers expelled since October 2024, When Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester initiated the execution of the Expanded Plan for Interdiction and Containment of Migration Flows arranged by President Luis Abinader.
The reconductions covered day and night operations on planned work routes and developed by the DGM, and with human, technical and mobility teams that act in coordination with the Ministry of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force of the Dominican Republic, National Police, National Police, Public Ministry, Task Force Quiet Ciudad (Ciutran) and the General Directorate of Traffic and Terrestrial Transportation (DIGESETT).
Migration operations throughout the country
The agency responsible for administering and controlling the migratory flow and regulating the permanence of foreigners in the national territory indicates, in a note, that in the last 15 days it deployed 135 interdiction operations, ensuring procedural guarantees and without putting integrity at risk Physics and life of the 6,906 deported and 8,437 repatriated to their respective countries of origin.
Of the operations carried out in this month, 29 were in the great Santo Domingo, 15 in Santiago, 9 in Puerto Plata, 8 in La Vega, 13 in Dajabón, 14 in Elías Piña, 11 in Independence, 12 in Pedernales, 9 in Azua and 15 in Altagracia. The largest number of detainees were of Haitian nationality (98.8%) and the rest of Ghana, Santa Lucía, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Trinidad, China and Venezuela.
From October 1st to February 15/25, 78,522 Haitians and repatriated another 63,856 have been deported, for a total of 142,378 reached. The deportees are those to whom the biometric and identity data in the detention and reception centers of Haina, Dajabón, Benerito and Santiago have been processed and taken; Repatriated have been returned to their country directly from border points.
Actions against migratory crimes
The Expanded Plan for immigration interdiction and containment is executed in all provinces of the country, ordered and in strict compliance with Law 285-04 and its Regulations, No. 631-11. It is also implemented in accordance with due process standards, carrying out individualized evaluations, aligned with respect for human rights and without injuring people’s dignity.
The DGM also reported that in the course of this month it has submitted 14 people charged in criminal crimes linked to the regulations of the institution, especially the illicit traffic of migrants and forgery of documents. So far this year there are 26 submissions to justice.
In 2025 the DGM has also granted 143 certifications, 2,168 permits and 1,062 residences for different causes, including for investors.
The DGM, on the other hand, reported that the organization and planning of the work it performs to regulate migratory flows, assert law 285-04 and preserve our identity as a nation, is a basic norm that is part of its operational doctrine.
He explains that prior to the teams to leave to perform the operations, an intelligence lifting is made and based on this, a program is prepared in which the routes are drawn with the points where they are going to move, but the schedules are defined And the members of each interdiction team, who must carry several members of the Armed Forces, an inspector and migratory agents, as well as a bus or truck, among other elements.
“We work by establishing priorities and we rely on the optimization of the resources, capacities and means available. It always acts in accordance with the regulations of current immigration laws and we ensure that all foreign citizens are properly documented and registered, ”says the DGM note.
