Deportations, really ?

[malko]

Had an interesting conversation.

Haitian lady wants to go back to Haiti for holidays/visiting family.

She is illegal. Works as a cleaning lady/cook, in a Dominican household. So she asks for a week off work. Approved.

The next day (!!) she stops off to say goodbye all dressed up, make-up, suitcase and all. I point out that Haiti is the other way.
She knows, but the nearest stop for the deportation lorries is closet the other way.....
Wait, what ?

Oh yeah, easier and cheaper to hitch a ride with a deportation lorry/bus.
I am like, wtf ?
Most people on those buses are on a trip home, and the drivers/LE know it ...... lol.

Then, at the end of the week, she hops on a motoconcho who for 4k pesos brings her back to her starting point in the DR.
4k pesos gets you through the border, past the checkpoints and includes the kick-back to the deportation personnel that drove you there in the first place.

I always kind of laughed at migracion posts on dr1, as everybody is happy with the statu-quo on Haitians in the DR--- except perhaps the lazy local drunks who have no idea of what a hard day's work is---- but dr1 seems to think not.

So we had caribetour, metro and co, and now we also have DeportationTour.

 

[NanSanPedro]

Had an interesting conversation.

Haitian lady wants to go back to Haiti for holidays/visiting family.

She is illegal. Works as a cleaning lady/cook, in a Dominican household. So she asks for a week off work. Approved.

The next day (!!) she stops off to say goodbye all dressed up, make-up, suitcase and all. I point out that Haiti is the other way.
She knows, but the nearest stop for the deportation lorries is closet the other way.....
Wait, what ?

Oh yeah, easier and cheaper to hitch a ride with a deportation lorry/bus.
I am like, wtf ?
Most people on those buses are on a trip home, and the drivers/LE know it ...... lol.

Then, at the end of the week, she hops on a motoconcho who for 4k pesos brings her back to her starting point in the DR.
4k pesos gets you through the border, past the checkpoints and includes the kick-back to the deportation personnel that drove you there in the first place.

I always kind of laughed at migracion posts on dr1, as everybody is happy with the statu-quo on Haitians in the DR--- except perhaps the lazy local drunks who have no idea of what a hard day's work is---- but dr1 seems to think not.

So we had caribetour, metro and co, and now we also have DeportationTour.

Interesting. I have been to Pedernales and Dajabon. On both return trips there were between 3 and 4 stops each, checking for illegals. How do they bribe each checkpoint? Not understanding.