The Department of Migration announced it would be picking up women and children beggars at city corners. But Hoy newspaper reported that there were none to be found on the "job" yesterday. The Minister of Foreign Relations had denounced that all appeared that the beggars were being dropped off at city corners to work by an organized human contraband network. Usually the work is carried out by women with small children who beg from cars stopped at traffic light intersections of main city avenues. The Director of the Department, Cuevas Moreta said that the Haitian children are exploited on the job by others. Many are not children of the woman who heads the group at a corner. Usually, the parents of the children receive pay for their children’s efforts. The Department says there are different modalities of the beggar’s racket that exploits human misery. He said in one of the versions, they have ascertained that the Haitian women rent the children to go begging.
