The Dominican Republic says it has resumed the deportation of illegal Haitian immigrants, suspended after 2010's earthquake in Haiti

Dominican security forces set up dozens of road blocks on the outskirts of the capital, Santo Domingo, amid fears about the spread of cholera. They say they stopped thousands of Haitians crossing the border in search of work, many of them illegally. Immigration officials say that at least 950 have been deported in 2011. The Dominican authorities say the move is crucial if they are going to stop the spread of cholera. Some 3,500 people have died from the disease in Haiti. About 150 people are known to have contracted it in the Dominican Republic. The United Nations has estimated that before the earthquake, around 600,000 Haitians lived in the Dominican Republic illegally. Director of Migration for the Dominican Republic Sigfrido Pared says that number has since reached one million.