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Dominican Republic hunts migrants in maternity wards / 434W9T4
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Authorities in the Dominican Republic have launched a hunt for undocumented migrants in hospitals, arresting pregnant women and mothers with newborns in a crackdown on arrivals from neighboring Haiti.
Eighty-seven women and 48 children were arrested Monday in hospitals and maternity wards across the Caribbean nation, which is on a drive to expel migrants from gang-plagued, deeply impoverished Haiti.
Over half of the women who were arrested Monday, the first day of the operation targeting hospitals, were pregnant, according to official figures. The rest had recently given birth. No men were detained. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES