The Director of the Migrations Department, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz, told the news media that the numerous Chinese nationals that have been arrested, together with Dominicans on makeshift boats (yolas) sailing illegally to Puerto Rico across the Mona Channel came to the D.R. through Haiti, and not through any of the D.R’s ports or airports. According to Mr. Mejia Ortiz, six Chinese who were arrested on a yola last week are second time offenders, having been jailed last year and then released before Immigration was able to deport them.
1-7 March 1996