Father Pierre Riquoit denounced that Dominican army men are involved in the recruiting of Haitian workers for Dominican farms. The farms that are in need of labor pay the army men. The Haitians pay the army members up to RD$800 for a chance to earn a living at a Dominican farm. But Father Pierre Riquoit says that many have the wrong vision of where they are going to be taken to and end up being sent to sugar plantations. Sugar cane cutting is considered the hardest of all farm jobs. The news report by Leo Reyes for El Siglo newspaper says that the army men only provide the Haitians with a National Malaria Eradication Service card, which becomes the Haitians only identification. Poor Haitians rarely have any official identification. Father Riquoit says a pacific invasion of Haitians is happening and estimated the flow at about 30,000 in the "past months."
