DGM will strengthen immigration control Authorities and commercial sectors discuss topics for the construction of a binational market on the border
COMMENDATOR, Elías Piña.- The Director General of Migration, Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester, ARD, stated that the binational markets that operate on the border with Haiti should be in restricted areas and with stronger immigration control.
According to the high-ranking military officer and official, people who access these commercial points must be properly identified with documents from their homeland, "so that we can have their nationality, effectively know who these people are and guarantee the levels of security that the Dominican Republic requires to allow access to our territory."
The head of the DGM expressed his opinions while participating in an extended meeting in which various points of view were presented regarding the project to build the binational market in this demarcation, ordered by President Luis Abinader within the initiatives so that the border continues to develop and that the population assumes this progress and growth.
The meeting was convened by a group of local authorities headed by Governor Migdalia de los Santos Jiménez, Mayor Liriano Morillo, congressmen and merchants to, together with the national institutions that influence the project, socialize the different topics related to the binational shopping center.
Erick Dorrejo, director of border zone development policies, an agency dependent on the Ministry of Economy, Planning, Development, explained that the meeting was used to present to local authorities and merchants "the major project that exists for the development of Carrizal, which will incorporate a series of elements and infrastructure to guarantee the development of the area."
Ramón E. Pérez, Director General of Border Development, stated that “in the end we have concluded with the formation of a coordination table to address all the issues that arise regarding the commercial component and that in the long run the province of Elías Piña, and especially the municipality of Comendador, will be the big winner.”
Also present at the meeting were Deputy Carlos Morillo; General José Rodríguez, ERD, Director of the Specialized Corps for Border Security; General Luis A. Coronado Abreu, ERD, Supervisor of the construction of the Border Perimeter Fence, and Octavio Landolfi, Director of Internal Trade of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, among others.
Communications Department