{"id":5824,"date":"2012-08-20T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2012-08-20T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T07:43:19","slug":"noti4361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti4361\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican City of Santiago Asks Government o Stop the Entry of Haitians into the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"



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Dominican City of Santiago Asks Government o Stop the Entry of Haitians into the Country<\/STRONG>
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 8\/19\/2012<\/P>
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R<\/SPAN>epresentative sectors of the city of Santiago, the country\u2019s second city, have asked the new Dominican government to establish laws and regulations to stop the \u201cmassive\u201d flow of undocumented Haitians from entering the country through their shared northern border.<\/P>
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This request is in response to complaints that \u201cuncontrolled Haitian migration\u201d into the Dominican Republic is creating excessive poverty belts and social problems with diverse negative consequences.<\/P>
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The Council for Santiago\u2019s Strategic Development Plan, an umbrella for 65 business, professional, community, public and civil society organizations, affirmed that the moment had come to stop the traffic and trade of Haitian citizens into the Dominican Republic.<\/P>
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This request is in response to complaints that \u201cuncontrolled Haitian migration\u201d into the Dominican Republic is creating excessive poverty belts and social problems with diverse negative consequences.<\/P>
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Danilo Medina, in his acceptance speech and president of the Dominican Republic, committed to creating a clear and transparent immigration policy that respects human rights and international agreements, of which the DR is signatory.<\/P>
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He said his government will apply the immigration laws of the land and tirelessly pursue corruption among civil and military officials in charge of implementing immigration laws. He said the full weight of the law will be leveled against those found guilty of human trafficking.<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Businessman Carlos Fondeur said Santiago is the most important city along the northeast section of the Dominican-Haitian border and that this is why massive human trafficking is going on in this area. He said this explains why this area is the major recipient of the vast majority of illegal Haitian immigrants who easily enter the country.<\/P>
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“We see this all over…beggars in the streets, some selling little things on street corners and others involved in petty crime,\u201d said Mr. Fondeur.<\/STRONG><\/P>
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He stressed that the situation is creating poverty belts around the city because as people come from another country, it is logical that they have to find a place to stay and they end up in areas near the streams in poor Santiago neighborhoods.<\/P>
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“We are hoping to see a law and a clear immigration policy that we can rely on and know what we are up against and know how the new government will deal with this issue of illegal Haitians,\u201d he stressed.<\/P>
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According to Carlos Fondeur, more than 50% of the females who give birth in hospitals in Santiago are of Haitian nationality. He concluded that the Dominican government has to deal with this situation. EFE <\/P>
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Dominican City of Santiago Asks Government o Stop the Entry of Haitians into the Country Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 8\/19\/2012 Representative sectors of the city of Santiago, the country\u2019s second city, have asked the new Dominican government to establish laws and regulations to stop the \u201cmassive\u201d flow of undocumented Haitians from entering the country through … Continue reading “Dominican City of Santiago Asks Government o Stop the Entry of Haitians into the Country”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}