In an editorial today, Diario Libre makes the point that for a long time now, migration has been the country’s number one problem affecting security and way of life, but, as seems to be the norm, Dominicans don’t pay much attention to the important things.
“The fact that we needed eight years from the passing of the Migration Law to its application gives credence to what we say above,” writes the editorialist.
He observes: “One has to clarify that the ruling is not made for Haitians, but for all foreigners, because the Constitution guarantees their individual rights whether or not they are illegal. What no one can deny to the Dominican state is its sovereign capacity to expel from territory all who are in a situation of illegality or undesirable.
“What is necessary now, is to provide the Department of Migration with the resources for it to exercise its role as mandated by the law and the importance of its role as custody of the ports of entry to the Republic. In that, one cannot be stingy.”