Haiti: Registry Site for Returnees from the DR Created

Dominican traffickers captured in haitian border, Oct 2024 Photo: haitiLibre

October 29, 2024 Hour: 1:42 pm

As of 23 October, the Dominican Republic had expelled more than 27,000 citizens from Haiti, where the government and various sectors reject what they consider to be a racist policy on the part of the neighboring nation.

On Monday, official sources stated that Haiti now has a Multisectoral Group for the Management of Returnees, an entity that will set up a platform to register its citizens expelled from the Dominican Republic.

This team was announced by Haiti’s interim prime minister, Garry Conille, and the tool will be online to facilitate this work.

In this regard, the General Directorate of Migration of the Dominican Republic reported that 27,352 Haitians in an irregular migratory situation were repatriated.

This policy in Santo Domingo began on 3 October this year and aims to expel up to 10,000 migrants per week.

‘Of this figure, 25,392 correspond to expulsions following migration controls throughout the Dominican territory and 1,960 were rejected at the border,’ the digital newspaper Haiti Libre reported.

Faced with this situation, 8,721 Haitians returned voluntarily to the land of their birth.

The Haitian Foreign Ministry asked the Dominican government to respect the rights of children in the mass deportation plan.

‘The inalienable rights of all children, women and men who are the object of this regrettable decision must be respected, in accordance with the international treaties and agreements that govern the matter,’ the note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship stressed.

The ministry described the mass deportation measure, which envisages the expulsion of 10,000 Haitians per week, as discriminatory.