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08-20-2010, 05:00 PM
Politician and lawyer Vinicio Castillo Seman said on Friday that the change of attitude by the Haitians towards Dominicans is mainly due to the fact that the DR government has gone soft on border controls. He said that he warned President Leonel Fernandez that the "honeymoon" would be over once the country implements its Migration Law.
"With all due respect to President Fernandez, as a friend and ally, I believe he is wrong in his perception of the problems, because this honeymoon that he speaks of will end the moment the DR seeks to implement any control measures at the border," he said, as reported in El Caribe.
He said that the international organizations celebrate the sacrifices made by the Dominican people to help Haiti after the earthquake but will criticize when the DR seeks to control its border. "It is the sort of blackmail where if you behave in the sense that there is no border, or fail to apply the Migration Law, then we will get international recognition. But if there is any attempt to impose rules and regulate illegal migration, you will be a racist and a fascist," he said.
"Then if the basis for the change of attitude is that the Dominican state must renounce its right to defend its sovereignty it is a chimera that will not last," he commented. He said that the DR has no chance of improving its human development index until it controls illegal migration from Haiti.
Last week in Diario Libre Historian Frank Moya Pons summarized the Dominican plight in dealing with massive migration of poor people from Haiti, a situation worsened by the 12 January earthquake.
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"With all due respect to President Fernandez, as a friend and ally, I believe he is wrong in his perception of the problems, because this honeymoon that he speaks of will end the moment the DR seeks to implement any control measures at the border," he said, as reported in El Caribe.
He said that the international organizations celebrate the sacrifices made by the Dominican people to help Haiti after the earthquake but will criticize when the DR seeks to control its border. "It is the sort of blackmail where if you behave in the sense that there is no border, or fail to apply the Migration Law, then we will get international recognition. But if there is any attempt to impose rules and regulate illegal migration, you will be a racist and a fascist," he said.
"Then if the basis for the change of attitude is that the Dominican state must renounce its right to defend its sovereignty it is a chimera that will not last," he commented. He said that the DR has no chance of improving its human development index until it controls illegal migration from Haiti.
Last week in Diario Libre Historian Frank Moya Pons summarized the Dominican plight in dealing with massive migration of poor people from Haiti, a situation worsened by the 12 January earthquake.
See http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255470
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)