The Foreign Minister, Roberto Alvarezassured this Monday that the statements of former President Leonel Fernández on the human trafficking bill hide falsehoods and hypocrisy.
“In the next few days I will reveal the details and data of this frank manipulation with spurious political motives,” the official wrote in a message posted on his Twitter account.
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Previously, Fernández described the Comprehensive Law on Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Smuggling of Migrants as a legal tome. The president and leader of the People’s Force demanded that President Luis Abinader withdraw him from the National Congress.
He assured that this government will be remembered “as the government of improvisations”, and that the last expression of these improvisations is constituted by said project, which he described as outrageous and in violation of the Constitution.
He described as incredible what has happened in the country with said bill, which has been rejected by all sectors.
The opposition leader said that the government is yielding to international pressure, recalling that the country has a Law on Trafficking in Persons, since 2006, a Migration Law and regulations applying to that Migration Law.
In this sense, he said that “what is wanted is to reform that Law to allow what is wanted from outside, not to deport those people who have irregular immigration status in the Dominican Republic, that we do not have the right to their deportation.”
