SANTO DOMINGO, CMC – The Dominican Republic’s Directorate General of Migration, Venancio Alcantara Valdez, has announced plans to deport 71 illegal Haitian nationals who allegedly 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 indicated 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.

Following the incident, 78 Haitians were detained by authorities who said 71 of them will be deported, the remaining seven will be submitted to justice with charges of alteration of the order in the public road and violations of the migration law in Dominican territory.

The governing institution of migration in the country said 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 in the country.