They supposedly had a “permission slip” from DR to bring in kids.
They didn’t have “paperwork” needed to take the kids out.
This is from one of the women in the group.
So we can write all day long about this and brides and such not paid, but the fact is they had “NO” paperwork.
I appreciate the gentleman from Haiti who stopped them.
Hopefully the priest who gave them “permission” by word, will show up and clear the matter up so these folks can move on.
Bet next time they will have proper paperwork needed to cross borders with one or more person(s), in this case children.
No telling what would have happened when they arrived at Immigration with 33 undocumented children and no paperwork.
They may have ended up in jail there with our without the permission slips.
Good luck to them.
There are varying accounts from various people in the group, obviously depending on their level of involvement with the paperwork end of it. Even the Haitian government admitted that it had changed the regulations suddenly last week.
What is undeniable is that there was no intention to “kidnap” these children, “traffick” in them, or do anything remotely like that, and both you and the Haitian government are fully aware of that.
This was all for show, so that Haiti could distract attention from its own self-created problems and point to evil foreigners.
No way are any of these people *ever* going to get permission to take a single child across a border again, at least not from any country that makes any effort at all to prevent child trafficking. Nor will they ever get permission to operate an adoption agency inside any such country. I'm sure any permission they had from the Dominican government to operate an orphanage and arrange adoptions there is in the process of being revoked.