According to the non-governmental organization “Movimiento Reconoci.do”, the real beneficiaries of illegal immigration are the Dominican state, business and military personnel who use the border as a moneymaking platform. Movimiento Reconoci.do was responding to criticism from Immigration Director Jose Ricardo Taveras, who accused NGOs of wanting “the plight of the Haitians to be permanent so they can continue receiving funds.”
Movimiento Reconoci.do’s deputy coordinator Ana Maria Belique said that it was hypocritical to say that the NGOs benefited from illegal immigration and the human suffering caused by this problem.
During this week’s media luncheon event sponsored by Multimedios del Caribe, Taveras criticized the NGOs for saying that the National Foreigner Legalization Plan was a failure. He said: “Those who talk of failure are mainly the NGOs that live n not all n off other people’s suffering.” He added that after six months now they are talking about failure but during the six months none of them have invested even the cost of a single pencil to help Haitian citizens obtain their documents.