DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Migration Agency (DGM) announced 15,500 individuals were deported in the first 15 days of November 2024 as part of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of undocumented migrants in the country. The nationalities of the migrants are not revealed in the DGM press release, but the majority would have been deportations to Haiti.

President Abinader had set a ceiling of 10,000 deportations per week as concerns over mass entry of Haitian migrants, seeking free social services and jobs not available in Haiti, made headlines and was all over social media.

The agency also reports making significant strides in dismantling human trafficking networks. Among these is the case of a Dominican network that smuggled people here and then assaulted them for their belongings, but mostly of smugglers caught entering Haitian migrants.

The DGM says that since launching a...