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01-28-2009, 05:10 PM
Regional Migration deputy director Juan Isidro Perez says that the government is only issuing identification cards to Haitian farm workers. Perez denied reports that the Migration Department is also giving out work permit cards to construction workers. Perez said the permits are valid for six months and are being issued as a way of determining the number of foreigners working in the DR. Perez says that the Migration department is issuing the permits because the owners of the large farms have been made responsible for their workers.
Hoy reports that the idea of documenting Haitian farm workers came after an incident earlier this month when 800 Haitians, mainly laborers, locked themselves in a church for 24 hours because they were not being allowed to get back to their jobs and would be deported back to Haitian. Local parish priest Father Regino Martinez claimed the Haitians were victims of a trafficking scheme for undocumented workers. Indeed, Father Martinez later reported that the workers had left for Haiti, as agreed, to resolve the church conflict, and later return using existing people smuggling networks.
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Hoy reports that the idea of documenting Haitian farm workers came after an incident earlier this month when 800 Haitians, mainly laborers, locked themselves in a church for 24 hours because they were not being allowed to get back to their jobs and would be deported back to Haitian. Local parish priest Father Regino Martinez claimed the Haitians were victims of a trafficking scheme for undocumented workers. Indeed, Father Martinez later reported that the workers had left for Haiti, as agreed, to resolve the church conflict, and later return using existing people smuggling networks.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)