Dominican Republic 'to deport up to 10,000 migrants a week'

The Dominican Republic says it plans to deport up to 10,000 undocumented migrants a week to combat uncontrolled migration.

The program was announced by President Luis Abinader's spokesman, Homero Figueroa, who blamed the planetary community's dilatory effect to months of pack unit successful neighbouring Haiti and its nonaccomplishment to reconstruct stability.

Tens of thousands of Haitians person fled crossed the borderline into the Dominican Republic.

Critics accidental the authorities of President Abinader has treated Haitian migrants inhumanely, galore of whom are fleeing the utmost pack unit and poorness successful the superior Port-au-Prince.

Mr Figueroa said deportations would statesman instantly and travel strict protocols that guaranteed respect for quality rights.

The comments by the Dominican government’s spokesperson suggest the complaint of deportations of undocumented Haitians is astir to ramp up significantly.

Since pack unit successful Haiti has worsened successful caller months, the Dominican authorities person steadily been returning Haitians implicit their shared onshore borderline including respective truckloads of radical per time astatine the borderline crossing astatine Dajabon.

Now, said Mr Figueroa, that fig could scope arsenic galore arsenic 10,000 radical a week.

He spoke of what helium called an “excess” of Haitian migrants successful the Dominican Republic and said the borderline authorities would besides summation their surveillance and control.

The Dominican president, however, precocious warned the United Nations’ General Assembly that his authorities was prepared to instrumentality what helium called “drastic measures” successful the look of the humanitarian situation crossed the border.

In part, these latest comments astir wide deportations underline Santo Domingo’s vexation astatine the planetary community’s nonaccomplishment to found greater stableness successful Haiti.

A Kenyan-led planetary information unit of astir 400 officers has been deployed to the Caribbean nation.

However, gangs inactive power astir of the superior and the humanitarian exigency successful presumption of hunger, entree to cleanable drinking h2o and aesculapian attraction remains critical.