DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

If conditions for living and working in Haiti would improve, Haitians would no longer need to migrate.

Meanwhile, to detain the mass flux of Haitians looking for what their country is not providing in security, jobs and social services, the Dominican government has poured over RD800 million (approximately US$13.6 million) into bolstering its deportation efforts over the past ten months. Yet a significant challenge persists: Haitian migrants repeatedly return, often just days after being sent back across the border, a recent report in Diario Libre points out.

The reality is bleak, nevertheless. Despite substantial investments in new buses, biometric readers, and modernizing immigration facilities, the revolving door of deportation and re-entry continues. What has increased is the cost of re-entering as more controls are in place.

At the Haina Migratory Processing Center...