On Wednesday, Dominican Deputy Pedro Botello, Representative of the Christian Reform Social Reform Party (PRSC) of the minority opposition to the Lower House (3rd largest party), tabled a bill proposing the construction of a wall at the border with Haiti to control illegal immigration.

At the end of this filing, Botello explained at a press briefing that the initiative aimed to declare the construction of a wall between the Dominican Republic and Haiti "of national interest and public necessity". Note that this is the second attempt https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13594-haiti-politic-border-security-toward-a-dominican-national-priority.html to make vote this law, after that in 2014 of opposition deputies of the hard right Vinicio Castillo and Luis Castillo of the National Progressive Force (NPF)

He pointed out that the bill recommends the creation of a special commission to conduct a study on the feasibility, technical and financial aspects of its implementation, saying that this infrastructure would not be "just a wall of rods and cement" and presuppose benefits for both countries.

Recall that the PRSC had recently declared that the sovereignty of the Dominican Republic was "seriously threatened" by the political and social instability in Haiti.

If the question of a wall is on the agenda in the Legislative Palace, Dominican businessmen are against the erection of a physical boundary wall between the two nations of the island, while Haiti is now only the If the question of a wall is on the agenda in the Legislative Palace, Dominican businessmen are against the erection of a physical boundary wall between the two nations of the island, while Haiti https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25589-haiti-economy-haiti-s-trade-deficit-with-dr-amounts-to-$816-million-us.html . Preferably, they favor the increased use of technology to ensure migration surveillance and smuggling at the border.

Instead, they are calling on the public and private sectors to invest in border areas, which would generate between 300,000 and 500,000 jobs in total on both sides of the border in the next 6 years.

Juan Vicini, Director of the Quisqueya Binational Economic Council, is proposing a $150 million job-creating pilot project at the border as part of a public-private partnership.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25589-haiti-economy-haiti-s-trade-deficit-with-dr-amounts-to-$816-million-us.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25031-haiti-rd-dominican-petition-for-the-construction-of-a-wall-along-the-border-with-haiti.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23883-haiti-dr-creation-of-a-wall-of-companies-at-the-border-to-fight-against-illegal-migration.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-17212-icihaiti-dominican-republic-a-wall-at-the-border-an-electoral-issue.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13594-haiti-politic-border-security-toward-a-dominican-national-priority.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11349-haiti-security-border-wall-project-studied-in-a-dominican-commission.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11307-haiti-politic-toward-the-construction-of-a-wall-along-the-dominican-border.html

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