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Aura Celeste Fernández comments on Haitian migration

The coordinator of the Commission to Support the Reform and Modernizing of Justice, Aura Celeste Fernández said that Dominican businessmen are responsible for the increase in Haitian migration. She urged that the government, businessmen and other sectors join as soon as possible to define very clear, systematic and coherent policies in regards to hiring of Haitian workers for farms and construction works. She said none of the employers demand that the workers have legal documentation. She said that in the DR there is not a clear awareness of the dangers that Haitian migration represents, or is there a common objective on behalf of different sectors nor the Dominican State regarding the Haitian problem. She said all problems have a solution.