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From DR1 new today

57,000 more illegal Haitians

Statistics released by the Department of Migration show that after the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, some 57,119 Haitians who crossed the border to the DR on market days have stayed on in the country illegally. A spokesman for the department told Diario Libre that the figure probably does not even account for 50% of those who have entered illegally. The Migration Department says that 83 inspectors have been dismissed in the past 14 months for complicity with people smuggling, serious faults on the job, allowing the departure of people with legal exit restrictions, administrative corruption, forgery of documents or links to drug trafficking networks. "


Can anyone tell me how they know? Anyone who has watched the border crossing during market days can attest to the fact that it is chaos.. There is no one checking papers, no one standing with a clicker, no orderly one by one line...

I have watched Dajabon, Elias Pinas and Pedernales and it is the same for all three.. although Pedernales is smaller.

How can they possibly come up with these figures?