About 86,000 haitians have been “forcibly returned” to their country of origin so far this year from neighboring nationswithout specifying which ones, reveals a mid-July report from the International Organization for Migrations (IOM).
According to the same organization report, last year, 216,000 haitians were deported from neighboring states, despite the reviews for the forced returns to Haiti and the calls to stop the deportations before the crisis and insecurity in that country.
In response to the decision of the Government dominican about repatriate to 10,000 undocumented immigrants per week in order to “reduce the excess migrant population that is perceived in Dominican communities,” the Prime Minister of Haiti, Garry Conilleannounced this Tuesday the creation of a committee interministerial to give answer diplomat and humanitarian to mass deportations from the Dominican Republic. This country has started an operation to repatriate each week up to 10,000 foreigners in an irregular situation, the vast majority haitians.
In your account on the social network Conille -traveling to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya to ask for help against the crisis and the violence that Haiti is experiencing – affirms that he has given instructions for a committee to be organized starting today interministerial in order to “coordinate and reinforce” the response diplomat and humanitarian of Haiti in the face of what it describes as “forced and mass deportation” of haitians.
This constitutes, denounces the Haitian Prime Minister, “a rape of the main fundamentals of the dignity human.”
in the commission interministerialwhich was created after the emergency meeting called last week by the Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad (MHAVE, in its French acronym), will participate, in addition to this portfolio, the departments of Foreign Affairs, of Social Affairs and Labor, of the Interior and Territorial Communities and of Finance, as well as the delegated Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
This Tuesday, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold an extraordinary session to analyze the situation of the migrants haitians in Dominican Republic
The response of Conille joins the one issued on Monday by the Haitian Foreign Minister, Dominique Dupuywho condemned “the brutal scenes of raids and deportations” of its citizens from the Dominican Republic, which are “an affront to the dignity human” and contravene “international standards on rights humans, as well as the imperative of respect for dignity human.”
On October 2, the Government Dominican announced that repatriateup to 10,000 undocumented immigrants per week in order to “reduce the excess migrant population perceived in Dominican communities”, a measure that will be carried out “under strict protocols that ensure respect for the rights humans and the dignity of the repatriates”.
The Dominican president, Luis Abinaderinsists that the instability in Haiti generates pressure on security and health and education services in the Dominican Republic.
According to the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) of the Dominican Republic, in the first half of the year 67,844 were deported to their countries foreignersof which the vast majority haitians (66,227), and just yesterday he stated that, from October 1 to 6, more than 9,000 people in an irregular situation have been detained and are being subjected to a verification process to determine their immigration status in the Dominican Republic and be repatriated to their countries. .
