Members of the Army of the Dominican Republic detained a Dominican on the Barahona-Azua highway who was transporting a 10 Haitian nationals without any documentation.
The detained Dominican was identified as Olmedo Jiménez Montilla, who was inspected by ERD troops at the El Higuito checkpoint, when he was driving the black Chevrolet Tahoe vehicle, in which the foreigners were found with irregular immigration status.
The detainee and the occupied vehicle were taken to the ERD 5th Infantry Brigade with seat in Barahona for the corresponding purposes and submission to justice, while the undocumented were handed over to the General Directorate of Migration (DGM), the Dominican Army reported in a statement.
It is the third submission to justice carried out in recent days by human trafficking and illegal merchandise in provinces corresponding to the brigades that cover the border area.
Arrests for trafficking undocumented haitians They occur in the midst of the implementation of a controversial plan by the Dominican authorities with the aim of reducing the migratory flow from the neighboring country, plagued by violence and a multidimensional crisis.
On October 3, President Luis Abinader announced a repatriation operation to expel 10,000 Haitians who are in the country irregularly every week.
The measure, justified by the crisis situation that Haitian territory is experiencing and that leads its citizens to migrate, has been rejected by the Haitian authorities, who have asked for an end to the deportation. “brutal” and “racist” of their nationals.
