The Director General of Immigration reports that more than a million Haitians reside in the Dominican Republic, the greater part of them illegally. According to Trajano Moreta Cuevas, round-ups of Haitians residing in the country illegally number between 60 and 100 each day. Despite beefed up security at border crossings, impoverished individuals and families find few obstacles when they try to cross the porous and desolate 260-kilometer border. Moreta Cuevas said that his department is ?flexible? with illegals because he realizes that ?Haitian labor is necessary I construction and agriculture because Dominicans don?t want to dedicate themselves to those activities.? He is trying to organize a system whereby employers would provide an up-to-date of Haitian temporary workers. Moreta Cuevas expressed concern over an organized group that brings the children of Haitian farm workers to Santiago to beg on the streets. ?We are pursuing the people involved in that scheme,? he said.
