In an interview in yesterday’s edition of the afternoon daily Ultima Hora, Migration Director-General D?az asserted that the DR is no longer the "bridge" for undocumented aliens seeking to go to the U.S. that it once was. He attributed the change to "harsh" measures adopted by the Fern?ndez Government. He said that under prior governments, there existed a mafia of people traffickers working closely with unscrupulous people in Dominican consulates in European and Asian nations. The flow of illegals heading toward the U.S. via the DR were mostly from Asia. The Fern?ndez Government has stopped the flow by taking "drastic measures," including the dismissal of around 300 employees. Cases involving undocumented aliens have been frequently caught and acted upon. In cases where the DR has discovered that the aliens involved are wanted for misdeeds in their home countries, they are deported immediately.
