70,000 Foreigners Have Left DR

[AlterEgo]

Today's DR1 News carries this story, and their link makes a lot more sense, as it includes Haitians:

Foreigners leaving voluntarily

The Director General of Migration has revealed that more than 70,000 foreigners who were living in the Dominican Republic illegally have left voluntarily for their homelands.

Major General Ruben Dario Paulino Sem said that the foreigners who had left included Haitians, Cubans, Mexicans, US citizens, Peruvians, Colombians and Afghans. He confirmed that as instructed by President Danilo Medina, whoever wanted to leave voluntarily had been assisted in the process by the Migration Department.

He also confirmed that four Syrians, who had entered into the country on false documents and had not been allowed to stay in other countries, were still here. As there were no direct flights from the Dominican Republic to Syria, they were trying to send them to Brazil, but the Brazilian authorities were refusing to grant them entry, even though they would only be in transit.

He went on to say that they were speaking to several countries to try and get them a transit visa so that they could return to Syria, but so far nothing had been possible.

http://hoy.com.do/mas-de-70-mil-ilegales-extranjeros-salen-del-pais/

However, the next article in DR1 News today says that about 10,000 Haitians have left. So they say 60,000 "others" have left. Not sure I'm buying that.

More Haitians leaving

Almost 10,000 undocumented Haitians living in the Dominican Republic have returned to their country, as reported in Haiti Libre. The media cites data collected by a joint monitoring work from three human rights organizations working at the border: the Support Group for Returnees and Refugees (GARR), the Jesuit Refugee and Migrants Service (JRS), the Jeannot Success Border Network (RFJS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

As reported, during November 2015, 9,012 Haitians with irregular migratory status living in the Dominican Republic have returned to Haiti. This involved 3,191 repatriations and 5,821 voluntary returns.

This figure included 174 unaccompanied minors, most of who were living in Las Matas de Farfan, Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Juan de la Maguana. The number of Haitians repatriated by Dominican immigration authorities was down for the month of November by 25% on October when there were 4,344 repatriations.

There has also been a significant increase in voluntary returns in November compared to the previous month, with an increase of 47% over October this year when there were 3,053.

http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-1...-voluntary-returns-from-dr-november-2015.html

 

[william webster]

Call Trump....

he'll send his plane.........

 

[LTSteve]

This article caught my eye, because they say 70,000 foreigners have left due to the regularization plan, and they don't mention Haitians in the group [they didn't repeat Albanians in the original Spanish, they said "kosovares" for one of them]:

[computer translation]

More than 70 thousand foreigners decided voluntarily return to their countries after the deadline for joining the national regularization plan to expire, said the general director of Migration (DGM), General Ruben Dario Paulino Sem, who also said that during his tenure in the official body has succeeded in dismantling groups engaged in the illegal traffic, canceled and brought to justice several inspectors and some were imposed coercive measures.

He said most of the foreigners who have been repatriated voluntarily, are Cubans, Indians, Colombians, Iranians, Albanians, Chinese, Iraqi, Georgians, Albanians, Mexican, Belgian, Dutch, German, Bolivian, Czech, Spanish, Nicaraguan and Peruvians.

"There'll manage or misconduct of military personnel who engage in illegal actions in the Directorate General of Immigration, regardless of position or rank to occupy," said General Paulino Sem.

The head of the DGM spoke at a meeting with journalists in Boca Marina restaurant, Boca Chica, where he also reported that the agency received the ISO-9001 certification by the efficiency of management system quality of services offered by the body, thereby increasing customer satisfaction by meeting their requirements.

General Paulino Sem said he will continue to be repatriated illegal aliens, "but will respect the human rights of the people, preserving their physical integrity and within the framework of Dominican law."
He presented the ambassador of the United States in the country James Brewster, congratulated the DGM for transparent and respectful carried out deportations of foreigners.

He argued that that position also assumed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The overall Paulino Sem emphasized that "the DGM has made ​​great efforts to improve the quality of services it provides to its users, modernize management their processes and more efficient channels telephone and e-care, and the only window, and all that we have achieved thanks to the support of President Danilo Medina, for us to be an effective institution regulating migration by implementing Law 285-04 .

"The modernization of our facilities and reducing the time you have allowed the processing of files in less time, making the services rendered run exceeding standards established by regulations," he said.

A NOTE

Respect DH

The US ambassador, James Brewster, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, welcomed the Migration for its transparent way deportations of foreigners.

http://elnacional.com.do/salen-de-rd-mas-70-mil-extranjeros/

700000 have left but 80000 Gringos have showed up.