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Santo Domingo.- The Instituto Duartiano and the Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia (Finjus) supported this Friday the proposal by the senator of the National District, Omar Fernández, that officials involved in the trafficking of migrants be permanently disqualified from public employment, in addition to imprisonment.
Wilson Gómez Ramírez, president of the Instituto Duartiano and Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmán, executive vice president of Finjus, agreed that the presence of illegal Haitians in the country has increased, and the trafficking of these undocumented individuals is an attack against the homeland.
Gómez Ramírez considered it very important that categorical and exemplary sanctions be established against any person who attempts against the integrity of our territory, who with their action endangers our sovereignty and, in short, risks the high interests of the nation.
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“The trafficking of undocumented immigrants really entails serious acts of corruption and is a crime against the homeland; therefore, it warrants a special legal regime capable of producing the necessary intimidating effect of its effective sanction,” he said.
“The project of the senator of the National District, Omar Fernández, responds to the concern that overwhelms the majority of the Dominican people, and this people wants this activity to cease definitively, the border corruption that entails the trafficking of undocumented immigrants towards our territory”, he maintained.
He added that “We hope that this piece will soon be the subject of study, consideration, refinement, and approval by the National Congress”.
On his part, Castaños Guzmán regretted that there are always people linked to the State in human trafficking.
He considered that anyone who feels Dominican "will totally agree with that proposal by Senator Omar Fernández, that is, it is true that we have a law on trafficking in persons, as well as the migration law that penalizes such practices, but it would seem that this has not been enough and on this occasion we are talking about crimes that attack not only security, because you are trafficking in people, but also that attack the Homeland."
“So on this occasion, evidently, and in the current situation, a proposal of that nature, I believe that anyone who feels Dominican will support it, because situations like that always arise where there are people linked to the State in events of that nature and what is being sought precisely is to increase the penalties for those who have something to do with these practices,” he stated.
"I don't think it's just Finjus that supports her, I think the whole country in a situation like this where illegal immigration and the trafficking and smuggling of Haitian immigrants, evidently the society perceives that it has been increasing," she said.
The Senator of the Fuerza del Pueblo party for the National District, Omar Fernández, proposed to modify a bill submitted by the Executive Branch, which toughens penalties against those who traffic in migrants, so that in the future any official who serves in the illicit trafficking of migrants will be barred for life from holding public office.
The project was sent back to the commission studying the project to analyze the inclusion of the initiative.
The congressman representing the National District in the Upper House argued that anyone who takes advantage of a position entrusted to them by the people to attack sovereignty cannot be rewarded with public service.
