The director of the Department of Migration, Danilo Díaz said they dismantled a band of smugglers of Chinese citizens. The Chinese would travel to the DR to then attempt to make it illegally to Puerto Rico (by boat) to Puerto Rico. Díaz said that the band made up by Dominicans and Chinese residents in the DR would charge these US$10,000 to US$12,000 for the promise of getting to Puerto Rico. Migration arrested Ming Qun Liang, Hui Ming Ng and Xie Vurong King and Dominicans Luis Jose Garcia and Miguel Liriano Féliz.
