Migration Department director Jose Taveras Rodriguez says that a sophisticated detection system will go into operation in a couple of weeks to help to slow down illegal immigration to the Dominican Republic. According to Listin Diario, the computer system called “Real Time Control” will be placed at the checkpoints along the Haitian border. The system is supposed to be able to provide data on everyone crossing the frontier and is connected to the National Police, the DNI and the DNCD. The system will also be in place at the nation’s airports, according to the newspaper. The official, who was interviewed as he returned from a trip to Pamana, said that, “in a few months the use of illegal exits, the so-called “machetes” that produce fake passports and documents, will be a thing of the past.”