After more than a year of waiting, reporters from the Listin Diario newspaper were able to obtain the statistics regarding how many Dominicans have been deported over the past eight years. The number is 18,063 Dominicans, mostly men. The deported were returned to the Dominican Republic from nearly 80 different countries.
With the Dominican Republic in the sight of different human rights groups for its deportations of undocumented Haitian immigrants, it is interesting to see the list of crimes, such as immigration violations, and other circumstances that has brought about the deportations of so many Dominicans.
The returned Dominicans have been accused or sentenced for drug trafficking, illegal immigration, robbery, sex crimes, domestic violence, homicide, fraud, illegal weapon possession, human trafficking, terrorism, kidnapping, and visa violations.
The very long list of countries from which Dominicans have been deported includes countries as far away as Brunei and Indonesia, and as close as Haiti, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands. Every continent is included in the list with the exceptions of Oceania and Antarctica.
The Listin Diario had requested the information from the Migration Agency more than a year after filing a request under the Law of Public Access to Information.
The information is public at a time when the DR is being asked by international organizations and countries abroad not to deport undocumented Haitians.
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Listin Diario
15 April 2024