The president of the Agribusiness Council (JAD), Jose Antonio Martinez Rojas, wrote in Hoy newspaper that the DR could be seeing a repeat of cultural and ethnic clashes that happened in Ivory Coast and Albania due to governmental laissez faire in dealing with mass immigration from Haiti. He alerts to the civil unrest situation that surged in the Ivory Coast after migration was such that an immigrant launched his candidacy in the presidential election, with good chances of success. He says that in the case of the DR, as a consequence of scarce border patrolling and the policy of tolerance on the border, there are around 1.2 million Haitians living in the DR, employed in coffee, rice and banana plantations, road building, hotel construction and dwelling construction, motoconcho operators, ambulant vendors, and even taxi drivers. He says that while waves Haitian migration have been well received because these have kept a low profile, the cases of the murder of a Dominican woman in Monte Crisiti and the stealing of several motors of boats of fisherman in the area, show things are changing and the violence that characterizes life in Haiti is coming this way. “We do not want to become bearers of future bad news, but the parallels between what has happened in Ivory Coast and what is happening here are getting closer. He also commented on the consequences of Kosovo permitting mass immigration of Albanians. …”When the hosts wanted to react, they lost part of their territory, were invaded and the nation collapsed. We need to learn from past experiences,” he alerted.