The mayor of Dajabón gives undocumented Haitians five days to leave the municipality.

Santo Domingo, 16 May (Prensa Latina) The National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani) of the Dominican Republic today rejected the way in which the mayor of Dajabón province, Santiago Riverón, removed Haitian children from a park. The post Reject in Dominican way in which authority arrested Haitian children first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.

By: Luis Cruz Jr. Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- The mayor of Dajabón, Santiago Riverón, said that Haitian minors who were picked up in that border municipality were not ill-treated, and said that “it is not a question of hatred or racism against Haitians, but of a social order, since minors have become a concern for the population because of the acts they commit day and night.” Addressing this, Riverón said that the National Council for Children…

Several Haitian miners were arrested on the morning of this Thursday, May 15, by the Dominican authorities in the park Juan Luis Franco Bidó, in Dajabón. A muscular intervention led by the mayor of the municipality, Santiago Riverón, in person, supported by the municipal police. Children with tired faces, dirty clothes, were awakened in bursts and maintained by the clothes they were wearing. Among them, an adult was also arrested. This action is…

By: César Montesinos Dajabón. – Mayor Santiago Riverón issued an ultimatum on Thursday to foreigners of Haitian nationality who reside in different sectors of Dajabón without legal documents, granting them a five-day period to leave the country. Riverón warned that those who cannot prove their regular immigration status will have to return to Haiti once the deadline has expired. “Having five days Haitians who are illegally here in our territory.…

The mayor of the border municipality of Dajabón, Santiago Riverón, led an operation in several areas where numerous Haitian citizens reside in an irregular immigration situation. During the day, he issued a forceful ultimatum: undocumented foreigners have five days to leave the municipality, or they will be forcibly expelled. The intervention included patrols in the Hoyo de Lima, Hoyo del Puerco, and La Mara neighborhoods, areas identified as ho…