Migration Agency director Ruben Dario Paulino Sem says that since the National Foreigner Legalization Plan (PNRE) has ended, more than 33,000 people found to be in the country illegally have been deported.
The year and a half-long PNRE, which helped 288,466 people to legalize their status, ended in 2015.
Although he did not say how many Haitians were included in the figure, he denied that any Dominican citizens had been deported, as Amnesty International is claiming in a June 2016 report. He said that the Haitian authorities had a file on each of the Haitians who had been repatriated and that none were Dominican citizens.
Paulino Sem made the statement following a meeting with UNHCR and UNICEF representatives, where he explained the process the Dominican Republic uses to deport foreigners.
He said that in the last five months 17,666 undocumented foreigners have been deported of whom 17,580 were Haitians. Other deportees were from Cuba (33), India (18) and Albania (11). Countries with between one and five citizens deported were Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Finland, France, Italy, India, Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela.
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