Father Regino Martinez, the Jesuit priest from Dajabón, accuses the Specialized Corps of Frontier Security (Cesfront) of having ties with the illegal arrival of very pregnant Haitian women who cross the border in order to give birth on Dominican soil .The Jesuit also said that for years he has been calling for the undocumented Haitian who live in the Dominican Republic to receive documentation and normalize their immigration situation. He added that mass deportation just does not work or help in resolving the situation.
According to the El Nacional newspaper, Martinez said that the migration of people from one country to the other goes on with the collaboration of Cesfront troops. He said: “They (the Haitian women) don’t come through the bushes, and they don’t arrive to the hospitals on foot.”
The priest went on to say that the troops who are assigned to the checkpoints along the roads between Dajabon and Santiago and also directly involved. Finally he said: “The government, through the media wants the public to believe the fantasy that Cesfront is working hard to control our borders. The responsibility for the control of the border is in the hands the military. And if unfettered migration exists, it is because the military is treating it as a business, pure and simple.
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El Nacional
18 January 2018
