Hoy newspaper reports that its sources indicate the Armed Forces has created three commands to reinforce Dominican-Haiti frontier patrols. Some 1,500 men have been assigned to the units that will be rotated every 30 days. The rotation is so that the military do not have time to become part of the culture of contraband that is part of frontier life, according to the news item. The regional commands have been set up in Cabo Rojo, Elías Piña and Loma de Cabrera. Despite this new effort, patrolling the frontier is practically a futile effort now that increasing political and economic problems in Haiti force more Haitians every day to seek survival in the DR.
