The big hole in the story is: Everybody knows that thousands of Haitians are in the Dominican Republic illegally, working in the sugar fields and living in the bateyes ...and where is the Dirección General de Migración? Why didn't they round them up and deport them years ago?
Migration invests more than 139 million pesos in deportations during one year.
From August 2016 to August 2017 more than 45,000 foreigners who were in an irregular migration situation have been deported.
The General Directorate of Migration (DGM) reported that the Dominican State has invested 139, 786,292.30 million pesos in the deportations carried out during the period from August 2016 to August 2017.
According to a report from the institution of that total, more than 132, 381, 241.40 million pesos were invested in repatriations by land, representing an average of 3 thousand 721.98 for each person returned to their country of origin.
The report of the DGM also establishes that the deportations through the area represented an expense for the institution of 7, 405, 050.92 pesos, the average per person being 20 thousand 232 pesos and 38 cents.
The institution also indicates that 44,971 foreigners who were in an irregular situation in the Dominican Republic were repatriated by land, and 366 were deported by road.
The deportees come from 37 countries, the majority being from Armenia, Afghanistan, Cuba, Colombia, China, India, the United States, Haiti, Venezuela and Russia.
In accordance with the provisions of article 121 of the General Migration Law, the director of the institution is authorized to order the deportation of a foreigner when he has entered clandestinely or illegally into Dominican territory, enters with false documents, remains in the country expired the term of authorized stay as well as for other irregularities indicated in the aforementioned law.
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