Santo Domingo.- Dominicans who resided illegally in various nations, including the United States, Puerto Rico and Europe, of whom more than fifty percent are women of different ages, are voluntarily returning to their country.
Nationals are arriving with route cards from consulates and others with their personal documents from Venezuela, Panama, Aruba, Curaçao, Saint Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Chile, Argentina, Spain, France and other nations.
Many of the Creoles traveled to those countries with visas and other legal documents, but remained in them, more than the time granted by the Immigration Services, becoming illegal citizens and being persecuted by the authorities of each one of them.
Upon arrival at the Las Américas Airport with route cards, the Dominicans testify to the Immigration authorities, that they lived in anxiety on the streets and hidden in places, to avoid being caught by agencies, including federal agencies from the United States and Puerto Rico. .
“In order for us to survive, we had to put up with employer exploitation, even running the risk of being fined and imprisoned, but we also had to sell trinkets on the streets,” are the testimonies of the Creoles.
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Many expressed that they were able to return to the country, covering their own expenses for air tickets and others, with the few resources they managed to accumulate doing various jobs, including working in nightclubs, in the case of women.
“But others who decided to return to their homeland, in order to return, had to look for route cards in the Dominican consulates, many of which do not take into account their precarious situations, charging high sums in dollars,” some say. of travelers.
It was said that these situations occur, despite the fact that the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, has given instructions so that the Dominican consulates abroad offer the necessary facilities to the Creoles who come to them in search of services and assistance.
The president has also instructed the General Directorate of Migration, so that facilities are given to Dominicans who arrive in the country voluntarily with route cards, and can quickly meet their families.
