Jesuit Service says Immigration agents injure two of its members
Santo Domingo.- The Jesuit Service for Refugees and Migrants (SJRM) reports that two of its members were roughed up by agents wearing Immigration Agency (DGM) vests, during a Thursday morning sweep of undocumented Haitians near its Centro Bono offices on Josefa Brea street, in Santo Domingo.
In a press conference the SJRM said the alleged aggression took place when its lawyers who work with migratory legalization documents tried to prevent the repatriation of a young Haitian who was in the process of regularizing his migratory status.
The charitable organization said the lawyer Barbara Suárez and the social worker Dania Carmona were injured the scuffle, but didn’t speciry their severity.
In a statement emailed to DT, the Jesuits call the incident an abuse of authority and nothing new. “The use of physical violence has characterized other processes that we haven’t observed,” adding that they will file a complaint.
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