Just 90,000 legal foreign immigrants are registered in the Immigration Department files, and 11,000 of them are Haitians. Director General Jose Ricardo Taveras says that the low number is the result of deficiencies in the existing immigration controls and the obsolete technological platform. He said they were making improvements. “We have obtained a new data center, we have a greater capacity, now we have made a star-type design where all the institutions converge in the data center, but this is a process that is under way,” he said, when interviewed on the Dialogo Libre program hosted by Diario Libre director, Adriano Miguel Tejada. Taveras said that the new system has enabled them to interconnect all the country’s airports with the central Immigration Department database. Taveras also reported that his department has started a process with companies to legalize and regulate the foreign labor market, especially Haitian workers, and that they now have 19,000 requests from several sectors, mostly farms, and other agricultural ventures and construction companies.