In an official update released on July 1, 2026, the Dominican Republic’s General Directorate of Migration (DGM) has published stark new data showing the scale of the country’s intensified immigration enforcement actions targeting irregular Haitian residents. According to the agency’s figures, 34,226 Haitian nationals who were living without legal authorization in the Dominican Republic were sent back to their home country during the month of June 2026 alone.
When broken down across the first six months of 2026, the total number of repatriated Haitians in irregular status climbs to 196,321. All of these repatriation operations have been conducted in close coordination with the Dominican armed forces and multiple national security agencies, as a core component of the national government’s aggressively tightened immigration policy that launched in recent years.
The most striking figure from the DGM’s announcement covers a longer 20-month timeframe: starting from October 1, 2024, when Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester took office as the head of the migration agency, the cumulative total of deported Haitian migrants has now reached 670,500. That number reflects a consistent pace of large-scale enforcement actions across nearly two years.
In a granular snapshot of daily enforcement activity, the DGM also shared details from one day at the end of June: on June 30, authorities apprehended 980 Haitian migrants who were found to be in violation of the country’s immigration rules, and processed the deportation of 1,041 additional irregular migrants back to Haiti the very same day. The update comes amid longstanding cross-border migration tensions between the two neighboring countries, which share the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.