The Migration Agency has announced that over the weekend they arrested 260 illegal foreigners in different areas of San Pedro de Macorís. Most of those arrested were Haitians and were arrested in rural areas around San Pedro de Macorís, as well as Los Guayacanes, Juan Dolio and Los Llanos.
One hundred of the arrested Haitians were taken directly to Elias Piña and handed over to Haitian immigration authorities, and the remaining 160 were taken to the Refuge Center of Arrested Persons in Haina, San Cristobal province to be processed and then returned to their country.
Migration authorities also said that one of the Haitians arrested was in possession of 109 portions of what is thought to be marijuana and he was handed over to the National Drug Control Department (DNCD).
So far, in the month of April, there have been more that 11,000 foreigners detained who could not produce proper documents, including Haitians, Venezuelans, Colombians, Chinese, Ecuadorians and other nationalities.
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10 April 2018
