Santo Domingo, RD
The Directorate-General for Migration (DGM) announced the launch of the so-called “Migration Control Enforcement Operation”, which consists of carrying out a series of actions throughout the national territory to check the presence of illegal aliens.
It starts next Monday and will last three months in total.
“We will continue this operation for three months and more. By air, land and sea we will use all management structures with the aim of protecting our border in a very special way and ensuring that our national sovereignty is not violated, so that we can act on this. mass exodus prevent illegal trafficking in people, transblind weapons and drugs and protect our country from any illegal act, ”said Enrique García, Director General of Migration.
Interior and Police Minister Jesús Vázquez, for his part, stressed that illegal immigrants should “under no circumstances” enter Dominican territory.
A total of 95 members of the Ministry of Defense and National Police will participate in these operations, which will “scour the entire country” in search of undocumented migrants. These come with 40 motorcycles, 28 trucks, 6 buggies, 6 buses and two drones.
An inspector from the Directorate-General for Migration will be present at each of the operations, who will check the documents of the persons claimed.
Together with García and Vásquez, the Minister of Defense, Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, attended; the Chairman of the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), José Manuel Cabrera Ulloa; the Director of the National Police, Edward Sánchez; among other things.