City Aids Homeless With One-Way Tickets Home

Ok, I've noticed that lately you have joined the "NY is the DR's second city" bandwagon.

Its simply not true.

SD = over 900,000 people
STI = also around 900,000 people
SDE (on the other side of the Ozama) = almost 800,000 people

NY = around 500,000 dominicans

-NALs

I had to laugh at the puerto-rican couple who had two kids, both named Hector, just like the father.

Ay, mi gente...que voy hacer con ustedes?:cheeky:

You got to it first Berzin! I had a good laugh at that one too, reminds me of some good friends (brothers) Hugo and Hugo, their dad is hugo, and have another brother hugo too!

As for the ticket out of town thing, spain is also offering tickets, as is the Czech republic. I guess times are tough and it does take a toll on their budgets. In the case of spain, they want to send back anyone - latin americans, but especially eastern europeans who stay because unemploymnet/welfare benefits are better in spain. I was surprised that the DR didn't figure in their list - I guess the one way tickets out for Dominicans aren't paid for by NY City, but rather ICE.

As for NY being the second city, it most probably is. Santiago as a province has a population of 900 000+ but the city has only around 500 000. actually 553,091 as of the 2002 census to be precise. You should know that stats man!

http://www.one.gob.do/themes/one/dmdocuments/perfiles/perfil_santiago.pdf

NALs said:

Ok, I've noticed that lately you have joined the "NY is the DR's second city" bandwagon.

Its simply not true.

SD = over 900,000 people
STI = also around 900,000 people
SDE (on the other side of the Ozama) = almost 800,000 people

NY = around 500,000 dominicans

-NALs

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you forgot NYC=Manhattan 500,000 dominicans

Bronx- 300,000-400,000

Queens 200,000

Brooklyn 300,000

Staten Island 50-200

So NYC as a whole could be #1

NALs said:

Ok, I've noticed that lately you have joined the "NY is the DR's second city" bandwagon.

Its simply not true.

SD = over 900,000 people
STI = also around 900,000 people
SDE (on the other side of the Ozama) = almost 800,000 people

NY = around 500,000 dominicans

-NALs

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Going by your own standard of posting facts NALs.

Please provide a reference as to where you obtain these figures.
I would like to verify them.

For instance when you state "NY = around 500,000 dominicans", did you mean New York state as a whole, or just New York city(Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn), etc.

Also do all the stats you provide have the same base year for the census?
If not, did you allow for that in your calculations?

Thanks,


SantiagoDR

NALs said:

.... NY = around 500,000 dominicans

-NALs

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windeguy said:

If you think about it, Neuva York means the entire USA to a many Dominicans..

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In that case.......
....... If you count NALs in Connecticut, that would make it 500,001. :chinese:

I still fail to see where the news article and OP’s opinion does, relate in any way to the Dominican Republic....

The number of Dominicans in the US is unknown at this point. Out of that unknown number it's estimated that less than .3% is there out of legal status.

Once the recent changes to the constitution are put into practice, the number of Dominicans in the US will be not less than 3 million or more...

Still this thread fails to attach any link to the DR at all...

presumably the figures would only show people legally in the country- it would be difficult to count people that no-one knows are there

What is the world coming to when they start offering one-way tickets? The article that I read stated that supporting a home-less family costs NYC around $36,000/year.

Now, what if a ((savvy)) homeless person, there are plenty in NYC, not from the DR, claimed to be from the DR? Would the DR end up with throngs of home-less from the USA, looking for warm benches to rest upon? Former stock-brokers and hedge fund advisors? Madoff victims? Possibilities are endless.

I'm not kidding. Anything is possible. I myself am feeling homeless right about now.

P.S. NO offense meant to the actual home-less. Period.

SantiagoDR said:

Going by your own standard of posting facts NALs.

Please provide a reference as to where you obtain these figures.
I would like to verify them.

For instance when you state "NY = around 500,000 dominicans", did you mean New York state as a whole, or just New York city(Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn), etc.

Also do all the stats you provide have the same base year for the census?
If not, did you allow for that in your calculations?

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I simply used rounded figures from what I remembered, but since you want sources:

Distrito Nacional (aka, SD): 913,540

Santo Domingo Este (aka, Zona Oriental): 787,129

Santiago:622,011

Those figures are based on the 2002 census and are of the actual cities, not the provinces - except for the Distrito Nacional since the district IS the city of Santo Domingo.

And regarding the population of Dominicans in NYC (five boroughs combined), I guess I was wrong. A New York Times article puts it at around 600,000.

Given that the article was published in 2007 and the other data is from 2002, the Dominican cities most likely had more people in 2007.

-NALs

Thank You NALs for clearing that up!