Education Minister Alejandrina German has told Hoy newspaper that there are public schools in border provinces where all the students are Haitian children who have crossed the border most illegally. She said that this is the case in the provinces of Elias Pina and Pedernales, as well as in the border town of Jimani. She said there are also many places where there are undocumented children, assumed to be Haitian, but the authorities do not know for sure. German told the newspaper that the school system does not deny admission to any child. She explained there are also many undocumented children in the outskirts of Santo Domingo and La Romana, for instance, where there were sugar cane mills. The minister said that in many cases these are Dominican-born children of Haitian parents.