The new director of the Migration Agency Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester is applying the Migration Law. Minister of Agriculture Limber Crux wants the government to instead issue temporary work permits.
Since 2 October 2024, Dominican farmers who rely on undocumented Haitian immigrant labor for their production have been facing uncertainty following the government’s plan for weekly deportations. This issue has created a divide between the Migration Agency and the Ministry of Agriculture that favors a short-term solution.
“If you eat an egg, if you drink a liter of milk, if you consume a pound of meat, if you eat a plantain, if you eat a banana, if you buy garlic, if you buy onions… everything you buy at a grocery store that is produced in the Dominican Republic, behind that, there is foreign labor,” emphasized Marcos Rodríguez, president of the...
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