Through decree 668-22, President Luis Abinader ordered a series of measures to prevent and prosecute illegal invasions and occupations of private and state property.
The decree provides in a particular way that foreigners who are duly prosecuted will be expelled in accordance with the constitutional powers of the president to do so, and will not be able to return to the country, for which instructions are given to a series of bodies such as the Ministry of the Interior and Police, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Directorate of Migration and the National Police.
Some of the measures adopted consist of the creation of a specialized unit in the National Police for the prevention and prosecution of illegal invasions and occupations of private and State property.
In the same vein, the Minister of the Interior and Police and the Director General of the National Police are instructed so that, within the framework of due process and in accordance with the law, they proceed with the persecution and submission to justice of those foreigners who participate in illegal occupations of privately owned or state-owned land.
In relation to foreigners with whom the commission of private property violations is proven, the Director General of Immigration was also instructed to execute their expulsion from the country, and definitively prevent people in these circumstances from entering the territory again. national.
Regarding this last measure, it was equally arranged that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs instruct the consulates of the Dominican Republic established in the countries of origin of foreign citizens who incur in the violation of the law indicated in this decree, to establish a particular registry, with the purpose that these citizens can never opt for any type of visa or entry permit to the territory of the Dominican Republic, whether as a tourist or as a resident.
The decree highlighted that the preservation of national security and public order, as well as the protection of the right to property set forth in article 51 of the Constitution of the Republic, is of high interest to the present Administration.
Likewise, it is pointed out that the Dominican government has struggled for years to ensure the effective protection of the right to property, which is today particularly relevant to strengthen legal certainty, for which all necessary measures must be taken to prevent irregular occupations or invasions of private property.
