Santo Domingo.- The Minister of the Interior and Police, Jesús Vásquez Martínez, assured this Thursday that Haiti It is the main threat to the Dominican Republic, so border surveillance is reinforced with modern equipment and intelligence units, which includes high military surveillance by the Ministry of Defense (Mide).
He indicated that the National Migration Council (CNM) is working for the maximum control of everything that has to do with the presence of foreigners in the Dominican Republic, where Haitians have become a real threat.
The official offered these statements during a visit to the province of Dajabón, in order to learn about the work on the border wall being built by the Dominican government to control irregular migration and merchandise trafficking from Haiti.
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“This wall is going to represent a before and after for the Dominican Republic and we are the ones who are called to defend sovereignty, the homeland and this wall represents that symbology,” said Vásquez Martínez.
He announced that President Abinader ordered the purchase of 300 more vans, in addition to new motorcycles, for the National Police and a significant amount of these units will be sent to reinforce surveillance in the border area.
“Every day the participation of Haitians in crimes and offenses that are registered in the country increases, we are permanently monitoring them,” he added.
During a supervision tour of the work, Vásquez Martínez was received by the governor of Dajabón, Rosalba Milagros Peña; Colonel Juan Adames Almonte, Operations Coordinator of the Specialized Border Security Corps (Cesfront) and Lieutenant Colonel Santo Lora Báez, Commander of the National Police, among other officials.
The wall
The wall that stands on the Haitian-Dominican border is 2.50 meters high in concrete and in cyclonic mesh it is about 6 feet, with a thickness of 20 centimeters, and to date 700 linear meters have been built, according to engineer Marcos Abad. who works on the project.
