Posted on 06/23/2015 9:08:48 AM PDT by Daveinyork
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Francis’s father left the family a few hours after he was born. At age 6, Francis was moved by his mother from Haiti to the Dominican border town of Elías Piña so she could search for work. When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Francis’s mother returned home to check on family members. He never heard from her again.
Francis, who said he's now 18, has “gone here and there,” since then, living with friends and acquaintances in Elías Piñas before traveling two years ago to the capital, where he works the night shift stocking watermelons at a local market for roughly 50 pesos per day -- a little over U.S. $1. Having heard about a plan to normalize the status of undocumented immigrants, he gathered his paperwork and went to the central administrative building on Thursday to register. He missed the deadline by one day.
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And we know just where they’ll come and on taxpayer expense.
Expulsion? I’m surprised the Dominicans aren’t shooting. Haiti is practically an existential threat to the DR.
And yet, Puerto Rico faces a flood of illegal Dominican Republic immigrants to rival the Mexican flood in the US Southwest.
Unfortunately you are right
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
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