Complicity keeps beggars in business
Francisco Leonardo of the Jesuit Refugee Service claims that the networks that smuggle Haitians, including children, into the DR to beg on the streets, do so in complicity with the authorities. As reported in El Caribe, he said that the owners of the business demand 200, 300, or 500 pesos a day from the children who are posted on busy street corners. Leonardo said that the massive presence of the children on city streets is caused by “interests of groups within and outside the government, associated with mafias that are the ones that direct the Haitian migration to Dominican territory.”
He said that some children are there at their own will, but in general there are networks that distribute the children to city corners and it is a lucrative business. He said the problem would be solved if the authorities applied serious migratory policies.
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