The director of the Migration Agency, Venancio Alcántara announced the placement of a checkpoint on the International Road that leads to Restauración in Dajabón province to control birthing tourism from Haiti. This week, El Nacional reported that the women were now entering in Haitian ambulances to give birth in Dominican public hospitals.
Migration Agency spokesperson, Nelson Gutiérrez, said the checkpoint would be installed immediately, but staff would respect the human rights of these women.
Migration took the decision, after El Nacional published that ambulances with pregnant women arrive from Haiti to the public hospital of Restauración, via the International Road, despite of the existence of three military checkpoints in the zone. The medical personnel at the public hospital in that municipality and its residents made the complaint to the newspaper.
“They, these women enter through Restauración, and this point is not under the supervision of Migration. Now, this situation has led the general director of Migration to order today a permanent surveillance check,” said Gutiérrez when speaking El Nacional reporter.
He explained that Migration Law 285-04 that regulates the Migration Agency gives it the authority to create checkpoints to counter-regulate the entry of undocumented immigrants.
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28 June 2023