Dominican Republic deports 30,000 Haitians every month

Santo Domingo deports 30,000 Haitians a month and wants 10,000 a week

The Dominican Republic is expelling around 30,000 Haitian migrants every month, and its stated goal is to reach 10,000 a week. The figure circulates without independent official verification, and it has peine an uncomfortable comparison: why does a country with fewer resources sustain an expulsion rate that Spain barely debates even in theory?

The ministry that locates, detains and returns

The prevailing narrative describes an administrative shift. The Dominican Ministry of Immigration has reportedly moved away from regularization and now focuses on locating people in an irregular situation and taking them to the border. In Spain, that same structure is seen as a paperwork machine; there, as a removal machine.

One of the most disputed points is the scope of the operations. It is claimed that the detentions reach hospital maternity wards, where Haitian women would be identified after giving birth. The allegation circulates without official confirmation and deserves the treatment given to any unverified accusation.

Why Ceuta does not deport 10,000 people

The most repeated contrast is one of scale and resources. The Dominican Republic operates over a territory comparable in size to a Spanish region, with a remarkable ability to go unnoticed, and still keeps up the pace. Spain, on an area the size of a municipality like Ceuta and with far more resources, does not reach equivalent figures.

Some attribute the difference to political will, others to European legal safeguards, which block any expulsion. Both readings are compatible, and that is precisely what is uncomfortable.

With all this, the likely outcome is that the Dominican pace keeps rising and that the comparison with Ceuta becomes a recurring argument. Whether the target of 10,000 a week is met or remains just an announcement is something the data of the coming months will have to decide.