A report on people smuggling on the border with Haiti in Diario Libre reveals that for RD$20,000, an undocumented alien can become a Dominican national. The investigative report looked into the lucrative business of influence peddling to secure irregular documentation. “We documented a case of a single man who sought to declare several children, who were all offspring of foreign mothers,” observed Britiga Sabino, in charge of late birth declarations at the JCE. The newspaper reported the case of a Dominican from Pedernales, on the border with Haiti, who is the natural father of two children but in papers has had eight children. He admitted to receiving from RD$8,000 to RD$20,000 for each to different Haitian mothers.
The newspaper reports that fake documentation is being used and that many times low payments or none are received and people just do a favor to a neighbor.
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Diario Libre
26 September 2018
