The Dominican Republic has deported thousands of illegal immigrants in recent weeks, thus spreading fear among the Haitians living in the country, which also made allegations against the government in Santo Domingo, use the cholera outbreak as an excuse for crackdowns. At the largest campaign against illegal since in the Dominican Republic Haitians living years were soldiers and employees of the Immigration Department set up checkpoints across the country and carried out search operations in poor neighborhoods to track down any living in the country without permission and now it is deported. Erickner Auguest, a 36-year-old father of three, who lived illegally since 1991 in the Dominican Republic, said he had been intercepted at the output of a hospital when he had accompanied his pregnant wife to an inquiry. "In walking, we got food, then drove up policemen and forced me to get into a truck," he told Associated Press in the border town of Jimani. He also said a friend who works for the border guards, had followed him helped zurückzustehlen again into the country. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians live
at least temporarily in the Dominican Republic, there regularly exposed to discrimination and the constant fear of deportation. The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which has led to more than 4,000 dead and 200,000 people infected, further aggravated the situation. After the earthquake on 12 January 2010 had facilitated the Dominican authorities, border control and suspended deportations to Haiti for humanitarian reasons. Immediately after the first anniversary of the deportations were resumed, however - with greater effort than ever recorded since 2005. More than 3,000 people in the past four weeks handcuffed and led across the border was - according to lawyers and migrants, including many legal entrants who had not only to control their papers taken with him.
"The catch all from the streets," said Gustavo Toribio Border Solidarity, an organization that provide migrant workers support. "The do not pay attention to whether people have children, whether they own a house. The only question for the residence papers." The Government challenged all the reports, which also legally entered Haitians were deported. The head of the Dominican Immigration Department, Sigfrido Pared, defended the deportations. His country could not catch basin for are Haitians who wanted to escape their dire poverty and its unstable political system. Estimates of the United Nations, lived before the earthquake, 600 000 illegal Haitians in the Dominican Republic, which itself has ten million citizens. The local authorities, the number of Haitians in the country has risen to one million, most of them stayed there illegally. "For other countries and some organizations, it is easy to criticize the Dominican Republic," said Pared. "No other country in the world has a common border with Haiti. No other country in the world has the same problem with Haiti as the Dominican Republic."
According to the authorities the raids are necessary to reduce the spread of cholera from Haiti. So far, only 300 cases were registered in the Dominican Republic - the case of a Haitian worker who had been visiting his family over the border and there probably infected, ended fatally. Even in Haiti, the disease spread more slowly in recent weeks as a national treatment program and a prevention campaign were effective. Nevertheless, warn health experts warned that the cholera in Haiti was not yet under control. In this statement, the Dominican Ministry of Health refers to his statement that there must be received no unnecessary risk. "The ministry is responsible for the provision and health control along the border and across the country responsible, "said his spokesman Luis Garcia. Many citizens supported for fear of contracting the deportations." The disease is a threat to our country, "said Seco Dino Matos, a 50-year-old truck Driver. "Haitians are our brothers, but not illegal. Our country already drowning in Haitians. "(...)
civil rights activists protesting that the cholera is advanced only as a ground for mass deportations, but actually stuck behind racism and xenophobia. The director of the Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement, Sonia Perre, pointed about the fact that many control points in domestic Roads had been built where no increased traffic volume is expected to Haitians who entered illegally, which could bring the disease into the country. In addition, many of the deportees had lived long years in the country. Now return to Haiti, raise only the risk of infection for these people, they complained. Because they would certainly try to take their lives and their work in the Dominican Republic again, they actually increased after their deportation, the introduction of the pathogen. "If you really want to fight the cholera, that's the wrong way," said Pierre. Immigration Chief Pared countered representations that long in the land Haitians living would be deported. The State Department said the measure is directed against Haitians who now crowded into the country illegally. However, since tens of thousands of undocumented migrants living in the country, it is often impossible to find out who was first entered or have lived here for years. queuing
As recently Jimani dozens trucks and many people walk to the border station, officers laid the Immigration Department willkürzlich two vegetable vendors. They let the two go but once again, as a man in a passing car asked them why they had done so. In addition to the deportations of Haitians complain that the country but also that they otherwise life would be made difficult: Bus and taxi drivers, they could not enter more often because the authorities had imposed on some public transport operators sentences of 270 U.S. dollars because they had transported illegal immigrants. The tightened border controls and also disabled legal border crossings, excessive bribes to speed up the formalities in the levels and rates of those workers who could write and completed for the dealers, the bureaucracy. (...)
link to three pictures of the Associated Press, whom I am not able to publish.
own translation of the English original: heike fritz
http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/dominican-republic-deports-illegal-haiti-migrants/?page=1
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