SANTO DOMINGO. - Immigration director Sigfrido Pared said Sunday that the agency has begun the remodeling of at least eight houses in the Haina Vocational Center to temporarily shelter undocumented Haitian children who wander the capital’s streets.
He said the work to locate and gather those children will be done in coordination with the Children’s Council (CONANI) and the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF), since the objective is to respect their rights, as well as guaranteeing a good treatment for them.
The official said from the start Immigration authorities warned of the increase of Haitian children not only in the streets of the National District and Santo Domingo province, but in other cities such as Santiago, though the main problem was where to shelter and feed them.
Interviewed by Manuel Jimenez on Coral 39 on Sunday, Pared said the children will be kept in the shelters fro around one week receiving attendance by psychologists and other professionals while their parents are is located in Dominican Republic or Haiti, prior to their repatriation.
He confirmed the widespread belief that organized groups of Dominicans and Haitians traffic with those children by placing them in the capital’s busy street corners to beg.
From: United States
oh boy.
Written by: ateo2010 
, 21 Jun 2010 2:16 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Owning Noobs
Great!
now let's hope talks finish and actions start, and if the government is going to build the shelters, the Haitian gov't, UNICEF, UN or what ever organization should help us pay the costs of food and shelter maintenance since those kids aren't our sole responsibility. We aren't a wealthy country like the U.S or Spain, we can't afford to "act like one".
From: Dominican Republic
They should follow the incredible model thats being used to take care of the Dominican people that are suffering as thier guide . Ayayayay.
This is a tragic and growing epedemic in the D.R that has no solution in sight . I will never forget when I was in Higuey 2 years ago and saw 3 Haitian boys no more than 10 years old sleeping on a card board box together on a store front sidewalk . Que pena !
Since the quake ,the streets of Sosua are slowly but surely becoming a refugee for homeless Haitian children but brick one has yet to be laid for the first orphanage. The government and the capitalist business owners are only concerned about the negative effects this is having on tourism . They are content to let these ''undesirable'' nuisances die of starvation so long as poppi from Canada has a comfortable bar stool , a cold beer and a cheap young prostitute under his arm.
Written by: xwill7, 21 Jun 2010 3:07 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
They can find hundreds of them by the monument area in Santiago... You can not even have a nice dinner without someone bothering you...
From: Dominican Republic
X,
that is my case in point . '' it only matters that your having a good time in paradise '' .. I witnessed the same thing on the streets of Nicaragua and Guatemala back in November .
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
Josean,
it's 10:00 PM, do you know where your children are?
Another burden brought to you by the Haitian population, and sponsored by the Dominican government.
Written by: xwill7, 21 Jun 2010 3:59 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
josean does not lower his mercedes benz window to give the window washer 10 pesos
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
I just found out those are etiennc01's kids. My bad Josean.
Written by: xwill7, 21 Jun 2010 4:03 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
dhb,
the monument area brings many jobs and money to the people of Santiago. If the kids roaming the streets ruin tourism than it hurts many Dominicans not just hotel owners...
When I park my vehicle there is no one there, as soon as I leave the restaurant, there are like 3-4 kids saying that they were "watching" my vehicle... WTF
From: United States, NJ (M_ S Cibaeno 100%)
This is bad. I thought BP was gonna pay for this.
From: Dominican Republic
X,
do you roll down the window of your hummer and pay the 10 pesos ? Really, this is about human nessecity taking precedence over personal gain and ambition .
Btw, whatever happened to that Josean character ? Is he in Banistan again or did he stick to his guns and never return ?
Written by: xwill7, 21 Jun 2010 4:23 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
dhb,
those kids are not better off in Dominican streets... They need to go back to Haiti and be that country's future leaders not roaming the DR
etiennc knows where josean is...
Written by: xwill7, 21 Jun 2010 4:24 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
dhb,
I flip on my wipers so they do not touch my windsheild... I do give some change to the kids filling up the pot holes on the dirt roads
Written by: telemeco, 21 Jun 2010 4:43 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Monte Plata
masquejode!!!!
Written by: ElProfe , 21 Jun 2010 5:38 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Jarabacoa
This is a sad situation and the responsibility is being put on the Dominicans when Dominicans are going hungry as well.
So what are they going to do for their own people?
Written by: Dummy, 21 Jun 2010 5:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic
What about the Dominican's kids from the slums of Santo Domingo City and other towns. nothing for them, just the haitians.
Written by: wents22, 21 Jun 2010 6:11 PM
From: United States, New York City
At least the Dominican government is doing something to get these kids off the streets. This is getting out of hand, im glad to see the government doing something before more Haitians come.
Written by: Amber, 21 Jun 2010 6:41 PM
From: United States
I wonder how many "parents" are going to claim these kids as theirs. I bet that very few. Now that these children are being taken to shelters, I can see them coming across the border by the truckloads.
Are there any organized lists of "missing children" in Haiti? How many parents and relatives are looking for their children, or are they all "orphans"?
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
I think Haitians live in the wrong Continent, after all they were forced to come to America, and deep down inside they still live in Africa; by the way, Im not trying to offend anybody.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Taking them off the streets to put them on the sidewalks..
Written by: ateo2010 , 21 Jun 2010 8:34 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Owning Noobs
WalterPolo,
the sidewalks? that's where they seat and sleep for most of the day..
From: Dominican Republic
From the streets to the sidewalks to the potholes six feet under ? I hope poppi from Canada doesnt accidently throw his empty Presidente bottle in that pit when hes done with it .
C,mon X,and just what the hell does Haiti have to offer its own flesh and blood other than more of them unfilled potholes to camp in ? The future surely is looking bright for a child in Haiti these days . Maybe one of them will actually grow up in time to be Slick Willys campaign manager in the 2020 elections instead of a shoe shine boy camped under the barstools of filthy sex tourists at La passions .
From: Canada
Undocumented "Haitian" children...???
Many, if not most, are born in DR... They didn't all come since the quake! (Hello!!!)
Probably, many of their parents were also born in DR...
Maybe even their grand-parents were born in DR.... working in the sugar cane fields.......
But because of the law, these innocent children are considered as "undocumented Haitians" because their parents and grand-parents were undocumented, even if they were born in DR. You cannot "document" a child is you, yourself is undocumented.
They cannot have Haitian citizenship, because they were not born there.
They have no citizenship even if it is one of the most basic Human rights to have a citizenship.
I can imagine the reaction of some living in USA if they were told that their child, born there, could not be a US citizen because the parents were not yet fully recognized US citizens.....
Written by: bankai, 22 Jun 2010 3:54 AM
From: United States, Long Island
The problem doesnt lie with the kids but with the traffickers. You get them and you can cap that at least some what.
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Haitianfriend:
What is the infatuation that Haitians like you have in being Dominican?
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
Very Sad situation, here is the irony in all this. The only place in Haiti were you see children of the streets is Port-au-Prince in certain key areas like you see them in many third world countries, capitals, specially in Latin America. yet this is not as bad as it seems to be in DR. It seems like someone have watched too much Slum Dog Millionaire and these kids are being brought in as a new business(street beggars INC). I doubt they just decided on their own hey lets head out to DR, after all contrary to what others may think the reason the border is so pourious is due to corruption on both side. The average border guard in DR is not there to protect the border, but to used his position to get his pound of flesh out of the daily activities. I'm not sure of their wage but in America a border Patrol agent and custom officer is paid in the neighborhood of 75k per year.
Written by: xwill7, 22 Jun 2010 10:24 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
pat,
But in USA the border agent's job is more dangerous due to the Mexico gangs... A DR agent should get more pay but the danger of the two jobs is not at the same level
From: Dominican Republic, Sabana Del Puerto
You can't just dump them into the middle of nowhere in Haiti, their deportation would have to be well-planned and these kids should be left in some shelter on the other side of the border.
And didn't they say that they would do this about a month ago?
Written by: xwill7, 22 Jun 2010 12:40 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
chillindrina,
they should include you in the mass deportation
From: Dominican Republic, Sabana Del Puerto
elchilindrino:
you're closer to beign haitian than i am
Written by: DRmaker, 22 Jun 2010 4:28 PM
From: Canada
dominicanheartbeat,
You seem to have great first hand knowledge of the "establishments" in Sosua.
Do you frequent them yourself???
From: Dominican Republic
Past tense ! I lived in Sosua for 2 years so I have a pretty good working knowledge of such a small town . But to my shame, I cannot say that my hands or my conscience were always clean . Do what you want with that ..
From: Dominican Republic
In all fairness , if the Dominican government is continually going to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to the immigration problem , then it should bear the burden and responsibility of dealing with the social cancers being caused as a result of its passivity . Let Uncle Leo and cronies pick up the tab and the shovels and start caring for these poor misplaced orphans . Haitian or not , you can not blame 9 and 10 year children for the predicament that they are facing . They did not ask to be abandoned by thier parents and left to the mercies of the Dominican street corners.
Lord help them !
Written by: Amber, 22 Jun 2010 5:23 PM
From: United States
Arizona is planning on passing a law in which children born in Arizona and whose parents are illegal aliens will not be issued a birth certificate. I'm surprised they are planning on doing exactly what they condemn the DR for
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
We need Trujillo back, f*&%$# everybody else.
We have government wearing skirts for too long; we need a real man running the f&%$#& country.
From: United States
don't be silent
trujillo may have had a change of heart and protected the Haitian children when he came to terms with his haitian origin !
don't be silent, you will never be able to shed your haitian heritage no matter how abrasive you are against Haitians.
You will be a Haitian Dominican all you life and you will die a Haitian Dominican.
DEAL WITH IT !!!!!
Written by: ateo2010 , 22 Jun 2010 8:25 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Owning Noobs
DONT_BE_SILENT,
I stand firm and humble with your statement!.
We need strong nationalism, a better sense of pride spread all over DR.
politicians, farmers, students, workers, Dominicans of all ages need to wake up, I feel like a second restoration will have to occur in the near future.
stupid pathetic idiots like
etiencc
josean
cantave
chilindrina.... etc....
and all the haitan anti-dominican clan would have being ip-banned by me long time ago
meaning even DT.com has to get some reall balls and show there sense of pride. kick all this haitians who don't like us out once and FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!
F#$%#$@@@@@ Semper Fidelis amigos!!
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
"Haitian heritage" that's so funny, Im your typical Haitian negroide, self-hating Haitian.LOL, not in my family morenaje.
Written by: xwill7, 22 Jun 2010 11:12 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
chillindrina is a swine
Written by: DRmaker, 23 Jun 2010 12:45 AM
From: Canada
dominicanheartbeat,
You raise some very good points regarding the plight of the Haitian street children in the D.R. and what can be done to help them escape their misery.
I was in Sosua this January when the earthquake struck Haiti. I remember the days immediately following the earthquake when Domincans, Haitians and tourists came together to help raise money for the earthquake victims: Haitian women in the streets were beading tourists hair in exchange for donations. Dominicans were going round to businesses in town to collect donations from employees - they were giving 50 or 100 pesos, whatever they could afford.
It was truly a wonderful thing to experience. After witnessing that, I feel that there is great hope that the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the international community can work together to help Haiti get on it's feet.
Written by: DRmaker, 23 Jun 2010 1:05 AM
From: Canada
On another note, the Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean - who was born in Haiti and immigrated to Canada when she was 11 years old - has been appointed UNESCOS special enyoy in Haiti. She will take this position in September.
Jean is one of the most prominent of Haitians living outside of Haiti. She will use her new role with the U.N. to help rebuild Haiti.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/....ernor-general-united-nations.htmlFrom: United States
dreanmaker
jean will not do shit for the Haitian children.
she will be another condoleeza rice :wave and get on a plane, wave and get off a plane .
she will be shaking hands and take picture,
the Dominicans are the only people doing something concrete for Haitians.
this is what has created monters and lunatics like : ( you can guess who they are )
From: United States
ateo how are you today ?
etiennc , stupid pathetic idiots ?
your cursing vocabulary has greatly improved !
From: United States
dont be silent.
i am so happy they have changed your medication !
From: Dominican Republic
Love is in the air !
Written by: Nehesy, 23 Jun 2010 1:55 PM
From: France, Paris
"I think Haitians live in the wrong Continent, after all they were forced to come to America, and deep down inside they still live in Africa; by the way, Im not trying to offend anybody"....
Look at this ignorance...The first africans who have been deported (or forced to america) were located on the spanish side de la hispaniola in the early 1500's so 197 years before the French got the western side at the treaty of Ryswick in 1697.
Nicolas de Ovando didn't want them in that colony because according to him they were teaching "bad habits" ( REVOLTS) to the Tainos. And he was right because in 1522 the first african revolt of the new world took place in Santo Domingo. They were africans from west africa, wolof or jelofes. See Pr Carlos esteban deive : "La Esclavitud del Negro en Santo Domingo" and "Vodú y Magia en Santo Domingo".
I visited many places in Africa : Senegal, Ivory Coast, Burkina faso, Niger and what about you ?
What are your visual evidences about african life ?
From: Dominican Republic
Bottom line !
Blame it on dems white folk fo da Haitian sitchyation in Santa D. DO IT ...........
Written by: Nehesy, 23 Jun 2010 3:18 PM
From: France, Paris
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now let's hope talks finish and actions start, and if the government is going to build the shelters, the Haitian gov't, UNICEF, UN or what ever organization should help us pay the costs of food and shelter maintenance since those kids aren't our sole responsibility. We aren't a wealthy country like the U.S or Spain, we can't afford to "act like one".
This is a tragic and growing epedemic in the D.R that has no solution in sight . I will never forget when I was in Higuey 2 years ago and saw 3 Haitian boys no more than 10 years old sleeping on a card board box together on a store front sidewalk . Que pena !
Since the quake ,the streets of Sosua are slowly but surely becoming a refugee for homeless Haitian children but brick one has yet to be laid for the first orphanage. The government and the capitalist business owners are only concerned about the negative effects this is having on tourism . They are content to let these ''undesirable'' nuisances die of starvation so long as poppi from Canada has a comfortable bar stool , a cold beer and a cheap young prostitute under his arm.
that is my case in point . '' it only matters that your having a good time in paradise '' .. I witnessed the same thing on the streets of Nicaragua and Guatemala back in November .
it's 10:00 PM, do you know where your children are?
Another burden brought to you by the Haitian population, and sponsored by the Dominican government.
the monument area brings many jobs and money to the people of Santiago. If the kids roaming the streets ruin tourism than it hurts many Dominicans not just hotel owners...
When I park my vehicle there is no one there, as soon as I leave the restaurant, there are like 3-4 kids saying that they were "watching" my vehicle... WTF
do you roll down the window of your hummer and pay the 10 pesos ? Really, this is about human nessecity taking precedence over personal gain and ambition .
Btw, whatever happened to that Josean character ? Is he in Banistan again or did he stick to his guns and never return ?
those kids are not better off in Dominican streets... They need to go back to Haiti and be that country's future leaders not roaming the DR
etiennc knows where josean is...
I flip on my wipers so they do not touch my windsheild... I do give some change to the kids filling up the pot holes on the dirt roads
So what are they going to do for their own people?
Are there any organized lists of "missing children" in Haiti? How many parents and relatives are looking for their children, or are they all "orphans"?
the sidewalks? that's where they seat and sleep for most of the day..
C,mon X,and just what the hell does Haiti have to offer its own flesh and blood other than more of them unfilled potholes to camp in ? The future surely is looking bright for a child in Haiti these days . Maybe one of them will actually grow up in time to be Slick Willys campaign manager in the 2020 elections instead of a shoe shine boy camped under the barstools of filthy sex tourists at La passions .
Many, if not most, are born in DR... They didn't all come since the quake! (Hello!!!)
Probably, many of their parents were also born in DR...
Maybe even their grand-parents were born in DR.... working in the sugar cane fields.......
But because of the law, these innocent children are considered as "undocumented Haitians" because their parents and grand-parents were undocumented, even if they were born in DR. You cannot "document" a child is you, yourself is undocumented.
They cannot have Haitian citizenship, because they were not born there.
They have no citizenship even if it is one of the most basic Human rights to have a citizenship.
I can imagine the reaction of some living in USA if they were told that their child, born there, could not be a US citizen because the parents were not yet fully recognized US citizens.....
What is the infatuation that Haitians like you have in being Dominican?
But in USA the border agent's job is more dangerous due to the Mexico gangs... A DR agent should get more pay but the danger of the two jobs is not at the same level
And didn't they say that they would do this about a month ago?
they should include you in the mass deportation
you're closer to beign haitian than i am
You seem to have great first hand knowledge of the "establishments" in Sosua.
Do you frequent them yourself???
Lord help them !
We have government wearing skirts for too long; we need a real man running the f&%$#& country.
trujillo may have had a change of heart and protected the Haitian children when he came to terms with his haitian origin !
don't be silent, you will never be able to shed your haitian heritage no matter how abrasive you are against Haitians.
You will be a Haitian Dominican all you life and you will die a Haitian Dominican.
DEAL WITH IT !!!!!
I stand firm and humble with your statement!.
We need strong nationalism, a better sense of pride spread all over DR.
politicians, farmers, students, workers, Dominicans of all ages need to wake up, I feel like a second restoration will have to occur in the near future.
stupid pathetic idiots like
etiencc
josean
cantave
chilindrina.... etc....
and all the haitan anti-dominican clan would have being ip-banned by me long time ago
meaning even DT.com has to get some reall balls and show there sense of pride. kick all this haitians who don't like us out once and FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!
F#$%#$@@@@@ Semper Fidelis amigos!!
You raise some very good points regarding the plight of the Haitian street children in the D.R. and what can be done to help them escape their misery.
I was in Sosua this January when the earthquake struck Haiti. I remember the days immediately following the earthquake when Domincans, Haitians and tourists came together to help raise money for the earthquake victims: Haitian women in the streets were beading tourists hair in exchange for donations. Dominicans were going round to businesses in town to collect donations from employees - they were giving 50 or 100 pesos, whatever they could afford.
It was truly a wonderful thing to experience. After witnessing that, I feel that there is great hope that the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the international community can work together to help Haiti get on it's feet.
Jean is one of the most prominent of Haitians living outside of Haiti. She will use her new role with the U.N. to help rebuild Haiti.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/....ernor-general-united-nations.html
jean will not do shit for the Haitian children.
she will be another condoleeza rice :wave and get on a plane, wave and get off a plane .
she will be shaking hands and take picture,
the Dominicans are the only people doing something concrete for Haitians.
this is what has created monters and lunatics like : ( you can guess who they are )
etiennc , stupid pathetic idiots ?
your cursing vocabulary has greatly improved !
i am so happy they have changed your medication !
Look at this ignorance...The first africans who have been deported (or forced to america) were located on the spanish side de la hispaniola in the early 1500's so 197 years before the French got the western side at the treaty of Ryswick in 1697.
Nicolas de Ovando didn't want them in that colony because according to him they were teaching "bad habits" ( REVOLTS) to the Tainos. And he was right because in 1522 the first african revolt of the new world took place in Santo Domingo. They were africans from west africa, wolof or jelofes. See Pr Carlos esteban deive : "La Esclavitud del Negro en Santo Domingo" and "Vodú y Magia en Santo Domingo".
I visited many places in Africa : Senegal, Ivory Coast, Burkina faso, Niger and what about you ?
What are your visual evidences about african life ?
Blame it on dems white folk fo da Haitian sitchyation in Santa D. DO IT ...........
http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/contenid....osnegrosesclavosenlaconquista.pdf