According to the news on the front page, the DR Government is going to do a census of all the foreigners living in the country so they can determine their statuses etc.
I have two observations:
(1) This is an excuse to round up the Haitianos without being accused of singling them out. A good friend of mine in the governments told me "we don't have an immigration problem, we have a Haitian problem".
(2) It will be a complete cluster like the one they conducted of the whole country 3 years ago. The people who conducted it did a lousy job. Oftentimes they were criticized because all they did was slap the sticker "Censada" on houses as they walked by. What will they do this time? Stand on a corner and ask everyone who walks by what their "status" is?
Comments welcome.
Scandall
I have two observations:
(1) This is an excuse to round up the Haitianos without being accused of singling them out. A good friend of mine in the governments told me "we don't have an immigration problem, we have a Haitian problem".
(2) It will be a complete cluster like the one they conducted of the whole country 3 years ago. The people who conducted it did a lousy job. Oftentimes they were criticized because all they did was slap the sticker "Censada" on houses as they walked by. What will they do this time? Stand on a corner and ask everyone who walks by what their "status" is?
Comments welcome.
Scandall