Santo Domingo.- A total of 115,461 undocumented Haitians He has abandoned “For your own will” Dominican Republic and returned to their nation of origin so far this year, according to statistics offered this Sunday by the General Directorate of Migration (DGM).
Those outputs “They are considered the product of the measures to interdict and deport undocumented foreigners, arranged by the Government and that are firmly applied by the DGM,” said the entity in a statement, in which it was assured that these returns are made “in a framework of respect for human rights.”
Only in August, 20,586 Haitians left Dominican Republic, according to official data.
The Migration Office said that “He has granted facilities, respect and guarantees for these returns to be carried out safely and under the principle that the process, just like repatriations, encourages a more orderly and human migration, which contributes to citizen security, protects social entities and influences the traffic of people. “
Last April, the President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, recommended that the thousands of undocumented Haitians live in the country “to leave voluntarily” or, otherwise, “they will be sought and repatriated”, as part of a series of measures to face irregular immigration from the neighbor Haiti, plunged into a crisis of multiple levels.
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Figures published last Monday by the DGM indicate that 250,741 Haitians in irregular migratory status were deported from the country between January and August of this year.
The repatriation policy carried out by the Dominican Republic has been criticized by organizations such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM), due to the increase in cases of vulnerable people, which includes pregnant women, infant mothers and children, who are returned to an increasingly precarious humanitarian situation in Haiti, a country that crosses a serious safety and precariousness crisis in all orders.
Amnesty International (AI) has indicated that immigration policies in the Dominican Republic are rooted in racism, the result of racial profile and the denial of basic services such as health, according to a protocol that conditions medical care to immigration status.
Likewise, AI accuses the Dominican State of arbitrarily depriving tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian ancestry, leaving them in a situation of Apatridia.
