Studies reveal that at least in the agricultural area there is a greater amount of immigrant labor than 10 years ago
The executive director of the National Migration Institute, Wilfredo Lozano, stressed that never before have relations with neighboring Haiti been as difficult as now.
“The Dominican people have to understand the complexity of the situation we are facing with Haiti, it is extremely difficult,” he said, adding that the idea of a failed state has a flaw, “that leaves us disarmed on how to handle the relationship with a failed state.
He said that never in the neighboring nation, “the problems that have arisen have led to some kind of tension like the one now, and it is that before there was a minimal response capacity on the part of the State… Today there is a collapse of the state apparatus and consequently, a disintegration of the political and state actors”.
The sociologist Wilfredo Lozano reiterated that the most delicate thing in the current context of the crisis is that there is no interlocutor with whom to speak on Haitian soil.
He pointed out that the Dominican government has done a job of raising awareness in the international community, but as long as a space is not built in Haiti where the actors themselves have an area where they can sit down and find a solution, it will be difficult.
Regarding the increase in the flow of illegal immigrants from Haiti, he stated that they lack systematic data that can say the exact magnitude of this pressure, but that they have done some studies that reveal that at least in the agricultural field there is a greater presence of manual labor. of immigrant labor than 10 years ago.
Lozano participated in the Reseñas program, hosted by journalists Rafael Núñez and Adelaida Martínez.
