SANTIAGO.- The Haitians who returned home to spend the year end holidays with relatives began their exodus to Dominican Republic across the border via roads, desolate areas and the coasts, while the guards become rich and the press repeats the ‘peaceful invasion’ of the foreigners.

The documented foreigners normally return across the bridge over the Masacre river, but others are seen in groups crossing to El Copey, Manzanillo, Cañongo, Santiago de la Cruz and other places where the military presence is minimum.

The presence of the undocumented foreigners in groups of as many as 200 in plain sight has who startled the residents in neighboring communities, despite the Dominican military’s vigilance in the various highways.

However the transporters of the aliens have their own routes to reach destinations in Dominican Republic, while many Haitians who enter Dominican territory for Dajabon’s binational market of Mondays and Fridays take advantage of the activity to sneak into other towns.

The Jesuit priest Regino Martinez, director of Border Solidarity, yesterday said to newspaper Hoy that the process the Dominican authorities have implemented to control, regulate and repatriate Haitians is “indiscriminate,” and that there’s a lack of “rational and intelligent control” to enforce the Immigration law.

He said as long as there’s no legal framework to control the border zones and regulate immigration, the guards are becoming rich and the press will entertain itself speaking of the Haitians’ ‘peaceful invasion’, driven by the very officials whose job is to protect the border and national security.