Former president of the Chamber of Deputies, now Santiago Mayor Abel Martínez, has gone public to denounce that large numbers of undocumented persons continue to irregularly enter the country and are affecting the urban development in cities. He said the situation is serious in Santiago and showed the press dozens of forged Dominican IDs. He says many Haitians have secured the forged documents to pose as Haitians that had legally recently acquired Dominican nationality. He says the dozens for forgeries were detected when they applied for sales space in the new flea market area opened in Santiago.
Martínez says that forgers duplicate Dominican IDs and sell them to Haitians, simply replacing the names on the ID cards. He said new technology in place at the city government has made it possible to verify the forgeries.
He appealed to the civil registry authorities at the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Migration Agency, the Ministry of Interior and Police and security bodies of the government to investigate and follow up on these forgeries that he says affect the credibility of the civil registry bodies and the civil registry controls.
“We call to the authorities of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), the Migration Agency (DGA) and the Ministry of Interior and Police to carry out their roles given this mass forgery of public documents that places the Dominican state in a state of judicial irregularity,” he said.
Last week, Martínez had also complained of a large presence of illegal Haitians that he said were invading Santiago.
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El Caribe
10 February 2017
