If they repatriate 10,000 Haitians a week, who would sell the fruits and build the houses in the DR?
National Territory – The measure announced by the Government to deport approximately more than 10,000 Haitians weekly has uncovered several pipes in different lines of society, from the informal sector to the highest levels of construction.
The figures offered by several institutions agree that, for example, on the construction ladder, Haitian illegals represent more than 75 percent of the workers.
According to businessmen and representatives of the area, this provision would represent a “collapse for the line.”
The undocumented not only have control of the area, but they have also marked their territory in the informal economy and public transportation, as denounced by several drivers’ unions, who ask for the intervention of the authorities.
Between the mixture of the lack of Dominican labor and the displacement in other areas, although some support deportations, others say that the entry of undocumented immigrants responds to the government’s lack of control, and to that extent, they do not see the solution to the problem.
Specialists such as Magín Díaz believe that the breakdown of trade relations with Haiti, the DR’s main trading partner, would affect one aspect.
This is confirmed by the report published in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which details that more than 800 million dollars represented the export of different products to the neighboring country in 2023 alone.