He says other concerns include price gouging for essentials like baby food and rice.
As the army collects information, many Haitians come here in the hope of finding a job.
"We don't have any money at all. We have lost everything. We are not able to work any more," says a woman who once worked for a U.S. military contractor and hopes to find similar work. "I was in charge of 50 employees in the laundry section."
Thirty Haitians have been hired to help operate this center. Sergeant Lemmons says the military is doing what it can to give jobs to local people, to fill the needs of this and other American units in Haiti. "A lot of them need interpreters. A lot of them need laborers for their base. Some of them want more skilled people to come in, like the masons. We may be able to use them later. So we may not be able to give them a job right off the bat, but the longer we stay, the more people we're going to need and hopefully the more people we can help," says Lemmons.
When the center closes in late afternoon, thousands will be turned away and face the prospect of coming back tomorrow. Sergeant Lemmons says the process so far has been orderly, but people are desperate and the need is great.
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