Dajabón, RD.
A hilera of people with slingshots arranged and descalzos to protect the zapatos atraviesa un rio: its Haitians who diariamente crucian hacia Dominicana to work, eluding the formal frontier steps and the possibility of being extortionate.
Agricultural traders and workers, domestic or construction construction in Dominicana in the mountain and vuelven in Haiti for the late, habitual dynamics in this 380 km front porch, which the governor of Santo Domingo promises to reform with a verjaardag.
In addition to looking to reduce illegal migration, treatment of people and contraband, President Luis Abinader announced on February 27 that the barrier will be built in the second semester of 2021.
Sin embargo, en el fronterizo Dajabón, a 225 km from Santo Domingo, haoi escepticismo entre haitianos y dominicanos.
AFP residents interviewed by the AFP accuse militaries of covering a minimum of 1,000 pesos (USD $ 18) in order to pass through Haitians who have no identity documents in that area and request an visa.
Those who have seen a carnet frontier by the general traveler in buses that of a country on the other side and paran in the aduana. Pero is a minority, compared to the number of people who crossed the Masacre, a wealthy river as well as the care of 30,000 Haitian migrants, among men, women and children, organized by dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937.
“Muralla China”
The subject of migration has a frequent point of friction in the historically difficult relationship of Dominicana with Haiti, the most popular hemisphere and with which it compares to the island of Spain.
“It is not going to resolve anything in absolute terms, because those who are in the way of illegal pagan money [en los pasos oficiales] for the crosses “, said AFP Willer Jean, a 33-year-old Haitian who works in a Dominican school.
Iván Reina, Dominican for 30 years, falls together. “Although we will build a wall of the treadmill of the Chinese wall, we will move the cobra (…) to a person to cross the front, without tenderness”.
In Dominicana, with 10.5 million inhabitants, live about 500,000 Haitians, according to the National Inquiry of Immigrants. Additionally thousands cross the front, ida and vuelta, each day, the majority for trochas.
The proposal for a real law has given rise to plans for the regularization of documentaries, but also for massive deportations.
“It’s a project that no governor has ever prepared,” said Enrique García, director of Migración AFP. “It’s not a simple verja (…), an example of technological reconciliation facial features, tactile hues, infrared cameras”.
But how many in Dajabón, who border the border between the two countries, his alcalde, Santiago Riverón, duda.
“Have a wall, but a wall of companies, industries” that help the Haitians to subsist, signal. “When an individual is working, his mind does not emigrate to any other part. If the Haitians are good, we will be good”.
¿Verja u hospital?
Due to the frontal front, a Haitian avalanche passes quickly to work in the Dajabón international market, which operates moons and firs in a French zone antes de llegar a la aduana.
Militêrs closes at 8H00 a white gate with oxides and escudos from the Dominican Republic af. The people empyza passar entonses with carretillas, ollas, cajas y bolsos para vender ropa -muchas veces recibida a traverses de donations-, pañales, articles de aseo y otras mercancías.
The Mayor of the Haitians avoids talking to the press, many on the spot. “Documentaries have received very bad treatment (…). I have been indignant at having been treated like documentaries”, Jean comments.
Someone in the front comes with good eyes on the construction of a wall.
“Say that you built a wall. I want God to build it”, uitdrukking a su vez el dominicano Carlos Mateo, de 43 años. “Dominican Republic is full of Haitians”.
Elias Pie, a 38-year-old Haitian, supports the idea that he can create security.
Pero María Altagracia Pérez, dominicana de 63, la rechaza. “They spend millions of dollars and here they are waiting for the construction of a hospital. The people are dying for the lack of a doctor,” he said.
Abinader y su par de Haití, Jovenel Moise, firmaron en enier un acordo que prevé, entre otros punto, un Dominicana compromise de ayudar a construir hospitals con international funds in the vecino pais and asi discongestionar sus health centers.
On the other hand, the oxidized white gate in Dajabón will close the other day.