Santo Domingo.- Immigration Agency director Sigfrido Pared on Sunday announced that the Haitian children who are begging in the streets will be picked up, and will seek to integrate the Haitian authorities and the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) to the task, because in his view it?s a delicate issue which experts must handle.
He said the effort will be carried out in coordination with the Armed Forces, the Border Security Agency (Cesfront), the Metropolitan Transport Authority (Amet) and the National Children?s Council (Conani),
The official admitted that the situation of the Haitian minors is of concern, given their increasing presence in the streets of the capital and other cities.
Pared said Immigration agents have made arrests and seized vehicles used to distribute Haitian children in the streets, a situation he called a ?big business.?
?What happens is that when they (the adults who use the children to beg) see the presence of Immigration agents who remove the minors and other people from the streets they fall back and disappear," he said.
He added that a vocational complex located in the nearby town Haina has been remodeled with Conani?s coordination, to attend the minors.
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/5/31/35867/Dominican-authorities-to-remove-Haitian-children-beggars-from-streets
my wishes have family come true! i can finally walk through santiago without seeing a swarm of haitian beggars and limpiabotas! eh palante que vamos!