This last weekend the Migration Department arrested and repatriated immediately 137 Haitians who were occupying the Duarte Park in Villa Tapia, Hermanas Mirabal province, declaring that this municipality was “free land” and raising the Haitian flag along with the Dominican flag, provoking a chaotic situation.
Migration director, retired Lieutenant General Máximo William Muñoz Delgado, sent a group of inspectors to Villa Tapia and they, together with officials, immediately arrested the Haitians who declared that they would stay in the park indefinitely.
As well as arresting the Haitians in the park, Migration carried out raids across Villa Tapia including the communities of Los Toros, Toro Lindo, La Cabuya and Monte de Plata. All of those detained were taken directly to Dajabon and repatriated to Haiti by orders of Muñoz Delgado. Also arrested and repatriated were 116 more Haitians in Santiago, Moca, La Vega and other parts in the north of the country.
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El Nacional
13 February 2018
