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11-30-2009, 03:10 PM
On Saturday, Migration inspectors were surprised to see most of the people they arrested and deported on Thursday going about their tasks as if nothing had happened. One of the inspectors who took part in the roundup said that he felt helpless when he saw that some of the Haitians he had arrested on Thursday were on the streets of Santiago. "I can't believe that they are already back in the country so quickly...incredible... we are working for nothing," he told Hoy reporters.
He said that the same people who had been arrested and deported were at their usual spots begging for money on the city's main intersections.
In Santiago's Cienfuegos barrio where the roundup took place, residents complained about the Haitians' return.
Jesuit priest Father Regino Martinez, who coordinates the Frontier Solidarity movement in Dajabon, told reporters from the Spanish news agency EFE that the deportation of immigrants does not solve anything. He said, "You don't achieve anything with this, because while the Migration authorities are repatriating the undocumented immigrants, other authorities are letting them return". Martinez has continuously reported the toll military authorities charge for letting illegal immigrants through the border.
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He said that the same people who had been arrested and deported were at their usual spots begging for money on the city's main intersections.
In Santiago's Cienfuegos barrio where the roundup took place, residents complained about the Haitians' return.
Jesuit priest Father Regino Martinez, who coordinates the Frontier Solidarity movement in Dajabon, told reporters from the Spanish news agency EFE that the deportation of immigrants does not solve anything. He said, "You don't achieve anything with this, because while the Migration authorities are repatriating the undocumented immigrants, other authorities are letting them return". Martinez has continuously reported the toll military authorities charge for letting illegal immigrants through the border.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)