SANTO DOMINGO, CMC – The Directorate General of Migration, Venancio Alcantara Valdez, has announced plans to deport 71 illegal Haitian nationals who reportedly assaulted security officials who wanted them to undergo routine checks in the province of La Altagracia on Friday.
The Director General also said that a group of undocumented Haitians who assaulted National Police agents fled and were later arrested.
He indicated that the Interdiction team of the General Direction of Migration intercepted a bus moving along the Punta Cana traffic circle. When it was stopped, migration officials suggested that the bus had dozens of illegal Haitian nationals on board, who started throwing stones at the migration members together with police agents who were part of the operation in the area of Punta Cana.
The immigration agents performed a routine operation when the occupants resisted stopping the vehicle with the foreigners on board.
The police said that eight Haitians would be submitted to justice, with charges of alteration of the order in the public road and violations of the migration law in Dominican territory.
Following the incident, 78 Haitians were detained by the acting authorities, who said 71 would be deported and the remaining seven would be deported for illegal transit in Dominican territory.
The governing institution of migration in the country affirmed that it has a video as evidence of what happened and warned that it would not accept alterations to the legal order in matters of migration.
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