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SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Immigration Agency director Carlos Amarante today said the entity has neither enough funds nor logistics to effectively deal with the large number of Haitians who reside illegally in the country and requested a budget increase.

He said Congress must pay attention to the situation and should raise next year’s budget for Immigration.

The official, arguing for increased repatriations of undocumented Haitians, said the number of those foreigners who are detained and returned to their country is low. "They are small repatriations within Immigration’s possibilities, always conducted in the urban centers of the National District, Santo Domingo province and Santiago."

Amarante said the Haitians detained had been wandering about or begigng in street corners.

In the last few weeks, Immigration inspectors together Police agents have detained hundreds of Haitians who reside illegally in Santiago and other populations of the Cibao region, who’ve been repatriated across the border at Dajabón, though their numbers in construction sites and farms have increased lately.

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9 comment(s)
Written by: Enriquillo1982, 6 Dec 2007 8:10 PM
From: Santo Domingo
The D. R. is perhaps the only country in the whole world in which its chief public officials make themselves experts in stating what is painfully obvious like parrots. What this official doesn't say is that the people which benefit themselves of this influx, that is, the construction and sugar companies, are the ones which finance the political apparatus that makes the election of his political party possible every four years, this also applies to the other two parties of the system (cont..)
Written by: Enriquillo1982, 6 Dec 2007 8:21 PM
From: Santo Domingo
(cont...) This monopoly of the economic and political establishment by these unscrupulous companies make the pacific solution of this tragedy by systemic means a very unlikely possibility. Which leaves the solution to the ocurrence of any of two events: 1- Imposition of economic sanctions to the DR on the part of the international community or 2- A gradual process of self-consciousness on the part of the inmigrants as to the degrading situation in which they find themselves, (cont...)
Written by: Enriquillo1982, 6 Dec 2007 8:34 PM
From: Santo Domingo
(cont.), once this self-consciousness is attained (and I'm talking about an agreement by the majority of the haitian inmigrant community, not the isolated actions by some groups of them that have been the norm until now), the inmigrants could take the following courses: a- to keep the pacific struggle for their rights that the ngo's have followed or b-do as the marxist theory says and take the "carry the heavens by storm" course of an armed struggle. Those are the most likely courses, IMHO.
Written by: Frank Aquino, 6 Dec 2007 10:52 PM
From: Florida
DuH.....
Written by: mike l, 7 Dec 2007 9:41 AM
From: pop
brilliant, Enriquillo! any schoolchild knows that there are ecological, economic and sociological limits to immigration. cross-border movement has to be limited by these parameters, or anarchy will eventuate. we dont need some government stuffed -shirt to tell us that. what they need to do is save their sermons for the labor profiteers who facilitate runaway immigration in order to magnify the pool of cheap labor. it is called THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM. dont look to the politicians to fix this
Written by: mike l, 7 Dec 2007 9:45 AM
From: pop
malasy; they are firmly ensconced inside the pocketbooks of the business groups like construction magnates and sugar producers. meanwhile, the average dominican and haitian are caught up in a web of misery far away from the mansions of the plutocrats.its a damn shame that people can be so entirely amoral in the 21st century. it is as though the age of enlightment still hasnt arrived on these shores!
Written by: Billy H. Adams, 7 Dec 2007 9:49 AM
From: Santiago, Santiago
Enriquillo;

Your comments areavery much like telling a rape victim that the incident wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been at the crime scene.
Granted. there are unscrupulous practices at work which prevent a complete and active deterent to the problem of illegal immigration. These practices are in place WORLD WIDE and not just in the DR. Read the periodicals from Spain, France and other nations for verification.
When a country is being "invaded" by alien forces, the public is also---
Written by: Enriquillo1982, 7 Dec 2007 10:28 AM
From: Santo Domingo
It's just that these politicians are only one very big bla, bla, mr. Adams, and me, like a lot of people out there, are just plain fed up of their blabbering while they do nothing about it. There are a lot of organizations out there trying to adress problems even more grave than this one, and they don't have even a 10% of the budget that these government dependencies posess. Their actions speak for them, while in the case of gov. dependencies, they speak a lot and do nothing.
Written by: caribelawyers, 19 Sep 2009 12:08 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Why they come in here first? Job and money.
Who gave them job? Dominican construction companies, which want to save money on employees...
Don't blame just the goverment.

http://www.caribe-lawyers.com/
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