El Caribe newspaper points out that the Dominican government plan to provide identification to an estimated 300,000 Haitian agriculture worker has met with serious difficulties in its implementation. Most Haitians do not have a name or say they do not know what it is, are not registered in their country, and have no identification documents whatsoever, or reject receiving the status of temporary workers preferring to attempt to permanently reside in the country. Miguel Melo, former president of the committee of coffee of the Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana (JAD), the director of Migration, Danilo Diaz Vizcaino and the Deputy Minister of Interior and Police Manuel Tapia Cunillera, concur the lack of identity of the indigent migrants presents extra difficulties to Dominican authorities. Tapia Cunillera said that 99% of those working in farm areas have no identification documents. In Haiti, only a very small minority of the population has identification papers. Dominican government has requested that the Haitian government provide identity cards to its citizens. The European Union has offered to fund this exercise.
