DAJABON.- The Dominican Immigration Agency director today asked the border security agencies to investigate the Jesuit Border Solidarity Movement’s denunciation that “an aggressive traffic of Haitian children” being used to work, beg and other tasks.

Carlos Amarante said it’s important to pay attention to the denunciation, “and we in Immigration have stayed in the capital and Santiago’s main avenues, trying to keep these women with children from being exposed to danger.”

Newspaper El Nacional said after the Jesuits denounced the trafficking of minors along border towns, the Haitian children who are brought to the border city to beg weren’t in the main streets, where they beg from motorists and pedestrians daily.

“We believe that given the amount of Haitian parents in Dominican Republic, they first come and then try to bring to their children, just as we Dominicans do when we travel to the United States, who look to gather the family… we are facing that reality,” said Amarante Thursday.

Immigration wouldn’t launch an investigation on the allegation, the official said, noting that it’s up to the Border Security Corp (CESFRONT) and other Dominican law enforcement agencies.

Amarante also said he expects Border Solidarity Movement to present evidence of its allegation.