The problem isn't even close to that!, for many years the US operated and maintained two Consulates in the DR, one still in the Capital the other in Santiago, this has to do with the way the US dealt with problematic individuals once they were identified, they were sent to Miami, NY or Puerto Rico and kept tabs on these individuals while trying to have them assimilate as much as possible the semantics of US culture and capitalistic ways, Visas were issued in 5 and 10 year lengths, to renew you only had to sent the passport by mail with a DR $ fee, since most of the opposition concentrated on highly educated and from well to do families, these young people were very reluctant to go study overseas in the US, yet many Campesinos took the invitation and came in mass to the US, establishing a strong and diverse Dominican Community mostly in the city of NY, these newcomers started setting Bodegas from the Latino-owned ones that existed at the time most of them owned by Puerto Ricans and Italians, they transformed these business to very successful extremes, many later moved on to Supermarkets and such, the vast majority of well to do Dominican Families opted to travel to Europe and some Latin American countries in those days, just as you can see the presence of European designer's clothing and goods in those years it was more heavily present than now, after the boom of the illicit drugs in the US, many young Dominican Kids that never had experience the pressure and violence that had the city of NY in it's grip during those years were pulled into gangs and criminal enterprises with the lure of easy money, but if you compare the number of Dominicans incarcerated or deported for crimes relating to illicit drugs or money laundering against counterparts in the Puerto Rican, Cuban, Italian, Russian, Irish and so many others to be able to list then here you can quickly see that the percentage difference is astronomically huge in the number of Dominicans who emigrated to the US against those who were convicted of crimes, drugs etc. it's way in the low ratios compared to many other racial or nationality percentages.
The real problem it's that many of the new immigrants coming to the US from the DR are for the most part family members and spouses which could just as easy fall in the category of poverty or marginally over it, therefore becoming themselves a burden to taxpayers in this country, yet even after the now defunct INS had petitioner fill a secondary guaranteer if they didn't fulfill the requirements for a safety of becoming a burden the agency rarely acted upon it, you can't do much if you don't enforce your own rules, as they say in DR "Perro que ladra no muerde", yet the new rules do too little to regulate or compensate or anything else for that matter about the real problems like the mentioned herein, the problem is quite simple and yet an awful one, many US cities and towns are in danger of disappearing altogether, in part because most baby boomers chose to move into metropolitan cities, the trend of Americans on keeping the family to an small number sometimes one or two has wreck havoc in many cities now gone, the only way many cities cope with this huge problem it's with an influx of new immigrants, yet the new faces are evoking the feelings felt by those who saw the streets in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan filled with a mass of recent arrivals of Italians and Irish after them and so on, change it's a good thing but fear of the unknown it's far more stronger than hopes, just as today we can witness the influx of US citizens, Canadians, Germans, French, Italians and many other nationals coming to settle in the DR, a newfoundland and many of them living on retirement funds not a great deal in their home countries but one that offers them quite a comfortable living in the DR, The Dr possesses own of the richest melting pots in the world, enough to rival NY itself, because no matter from where they came or keep coming everybody enjoys a Sancocho and a Ceniza, something you can't say in many other countries, and once in the DR you feel at home, because nobody's is trying to tell you to go home because you're home!, just as we speak an unique mix of original languages and dialects, Dominican Spanish is unique to it's own, a mixture of Gypsy and Spaniard, English, French you name it we have it.
We allow those who come to be part of our history and daily grind, the only country where the poorest of the poor may not have a prune to chew but would dance to a tune in cue.
Say this say that, at the end of the day nobody who has ever come to the DR has forgotten how to return there, because once you know it you don't want to ever leave it.
