The presence yesterday immigrants Haitians in the City Juan Bosch was reduced, which surprised some of the residents of the place, who say that it is not uncommon to meet a foreigner from Haiti in the area.
“Yes, there are many here. They come to work on the construction of the buildings, ”said Anabel, who only wanted to identify herself with her name while she waited for a bus transport in front of the hospital of the housing complex, located in East Santo Domingo.
In City Juan Bosch the absence of workers in construction sites was observed. “No, they (the Haitians) have not come today,” commented an anonymous engineer, who attributed the lack of immigrants to an operation of the General Directorate of Migration (DGM).
The immigration authorities carried out an intervention yesterday at 6:00 in the morning in the City Juan Bosch in search of immigrants undocumented after the incident on Wednesday, in which its agents were attacked with stones during an operation to check foreigners’ documents.
Henry Garciamanaging director of Migrationassured that “it’s not the first time” what immigrants undocumented Haitians violently confront the Immigration Control units. García warned them that “the full weight of the law and justice will fall on them” for their actions.
The General Directorate of Migration reported that in the intervention this Thursday they stopped 385 undocumented Haitians in the Juan Bosch City and in neighboring areas. Some of the immigrants who were detained showed documents to the press and alleged that they were regular in the country.
“It is an abuse that they are committing against Haitians. We were working and we have our papers,” a woman was heard shouting inside one of the detention vehicles.
The operation concluded around 10:30 in the morning and the detainees were taken to the center of Migration located in Hainan. Garcia indicated that the immigrants they will be purified for subsequent repatriation to their country of origin.
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Luis Manuel Contreras, a worker at the City Juan Bosch, commented that he has also noticed that Haitians live in apartments in the residential complex. Contreras considers that, if the immigrants they live rented, it is because they have documents for it.
Contreras assured that in the area they have not had problems with the immigrants from Haiti. The same information was given in the detachment set up in the housing complex.
The vice president of the Dominican Republic, Raquel Peña, pointed out that foreigners who are in the country must comply with the laws and public order. “They have to focus on law and public order and we all have to advocate for that,” Peña said when speaking about the confrontation between immigrants and the authorities of the General Directorate of Migration (DGM). Peña’s statements were made at the end of the sixth installment of the National Prayer Breakfast, which this year had as its main theme the establishment of a culture of peace in the Government, family and society.
