The Senate requested the intervention of the United Nations, and the OAS and other international community organizations to avoid an end to the incipient democracy in Haiti. The Senate joins the plea made recently by US Congressmen Benjamin Gilman and Porter Goss that recently alerted that the recent congressional election in Haiti could result in the creation of a narco-state in Haiti. The Republican congressmen affirmed that the Haitian electoral authorities and the Organizacion Familia Lavalas of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide are manipulating the results of the 21 May election in favor of that organization. Meanwhile, Danilo Díaz, head of the Department of Migration says that international non-government organizations instead of seeking international support to condemn the DR for violations of rights of Haitians in the DR should commend the country to allowing so many Haitians to find work here, offering free public health services to thousands of Haitians and allowing informal commerce, such as market days along the frontier. "Never before as now have the rights of illegal Haitians been respected in the DR," said Díaz. "Never before had agreements been reached in migration issues", he said mentioning advances in talks by the bilateral committee. He said that the government of Haiti needs to move on making real commitments to establish migration posts, increasing the number of frontier personnel and providing identification documents to its citizens. "What happens is that Haitians do not register, they do not get a birth certificate, not even an ID card which creates major problems as from the legal point of view they have not been born," said Díaz. He said this complicates matters, as it does not permit DR authorities to place them in a migration category that may offer them the possibility of regularizing their judicial status. He said the DR has been an international spokesman for Haiti requesting international support for the development of infrastructure in Haiti that may reduce the economic pressures that make so many Haitians migrate. "The DR is the country that pays the highest price and maintains the highest quota of solidarity with the sister Republic of Haiti, and provide most jobs, trade and facilities for health," he said.
