NewsWhore
10-26-2006, 04:20 PM
Diario Libre is reporting that in the last 10 months alone 786 Dominicans have been repatriated after arriving at Spanish airports with forged documentation. This has angered Spanish officials. The newspaper reports that the fake documents are obtained at "clandestine consulates," as they put it, and are operated by a "mafia" that charges between EUR4,000 and 7,000 for a legitimate trip to the European nation. Spanish consulate official Antonio Bausa said that they have increased the daily number of visa interviews to 170, but that this still isn't enough. He says that officials try to weed out those who are part of the mafia, but doesn't understand how people can be taken in by them. Because of this, the Spanish embassy in Santo Domingo is beginning to require DNA tests to prove family connections for people seeking visas through a family member already in Spain, and that the Spanish government is going to change the reunification laws in order to curb illegal immigration.
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