We hope for an excellent job from this gentleman !

I am drinking a glass of wine today,,,i am celebrating for Taveras's Success

Ahora si......

300 miles? is the border really that long. I say build a wall and set different posts within 50 mile from each other, one simple dirt road alongside the wall and a couple of 4x4 trucks, 2 helicopters and decent soldiers designated for border activities only. that way we can have our own border patrol agency. think about it, it doesnt take that much to do, the only expensive thing would be the wall everything else could be donated or seized from the capos in sto dgo,

The wall idea sounds good, but it's so easy to deport the bastards as well. They are right there out on the streets. Those 50 Haitians that are all pooping and pissing on the walls can't all be legal. Plus financial sanctions for those helping them out.

I hope this fellow can fix up the mess that is our border with Haiti, i agree with Jose_NYC, creating military posts within a relative short distance of one another will help control the drug trafficking.

"Surrounded by Israeli flags on both sides of his desk, Amos Yaron quietly explains his intentions. The Wall, he says, is an efficient way to stop Palestinian terrorists spreading their terror inside Israel -- and also to prevent them considering Israel as an inexhaustible source of goods to steal, especially cars and agricultural machinery. He boasts that 500 trucks, scrapers, and bulldozers are working daily to move millions of cubic metres of earth. This project, "one of the biggest ever realised in Israel", costs $2m per km, the project costs for the 500 km Wall is 1bn$."

Haiti- DR border: 300 mi. = 482.803 km

So even if the DR were to get the cost down to say $1m per kilometers it would need close to 500 million dollars!

Pie in the Sky guys. Back in the old days, the days of the Trujillo Dictatorship, this could have been done, but it's highly unlikely today. We need Haiti to assume its responsibility with respect to the border region.

Unless the FNP ran the government this is just political maneuvering by Leonel who is realising that the Haitian issue is becoming a front and center issue for the Dominican masses which may tip the balance away from someone perceived as weak (or even accommodating) with the Haitians like Leonel.

The truth is Taveras would have his hands tied from above and would either have to defraud those who believe in the FNP or resign . This brings up another point ... maybe Leonel is trying to set up the FNP in an attempt to discredit the nationalists !

Anyhow,only a president who shows a clear and unabashed effort to humanely deport the Haitians and to secure the border can be trusted but Leonel is part of the problem not the solution.
I wish someone would do a genealogical check on Leonel's background just in case!!

@atabey

i like the fact that you use statistics in most of you posts, thats cool. now do you really think that 500 millions is a lot to solve this problem, if i was president I'll make believe is a new highway I'm building there and in DR there's big investments everywhere from the sans souci port to cap cana and any other big resort in that area!!! get a loan, raise the taxes or miss a payment to one of the debtors but do something 500 millions nothing, the gdp is over 50 billions of dollars and there are hardly 10 million dominicans.

The border cannot be 300 miles. In a previous DT article, it's 130 miles:
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....ans-Dominican-Republicsealsborder

I roughly calculated it with Google Maps, and it's about 165 miles or 265 kilometers along its jagged line.

So, after celebrating their first Mardi Gras since the terrible earthquake, the last thing on the Haitians' minds would be on handling their side of the border. Therefore, Michel Martelly would be one final last hope on mobilizing the over-populated youths to help rebuild the country and stay on their side of the border. Yes, he's too popular with the youths to lose --unless...

Hopefully, some form of security would be in place to encourage others and the diasporas to invest and help anyway they can.

That hope is slim, but... it's got to stay alive ...somehow ;)

I notice the man is not military.

Maybe he'll be less tolerant of the GI Joes' dirty business.

Pepe right on point 100 %

If leoneljean was serious about the invasion He would have name Pelegrin Castillo as head of inmigration long time ago, Castillo is now a senator and a strong voice against the integration policies of leoneljean fernanduaz

Hoy se bebe!!!!!

This move by Leonel remind me of the Celso move in the CDEEE. If this works he is going to go around taking credit for somebody else's work and if it doesn't then he can say the opposite and still wins at the end.

Hopefully we get as lucky as we did with the CDEEE and end up with a Celso type of caliber heading the immigration department.

keep your fingers crossed.

Belly, right on!

The border is not 300 miles,,,,go on Google earth and measure it,,,it is about 210-220 KM...and you dont need to build a wall in all the border region,,,there are mountain that act as a barriers, lake that do the same,,,,all you need is a wall in the south
Perdenale going north to Lake Saumatre . Part of the province of Elias Pinas and Pepillo Salcedo going south to Dajabon to the town of Cruz de cabrera in Dabajon,
beyond that is the river Antibonito which are natural barrier that could be reinforce with surveillance.. in theory we might be building wall in the most vurnerable crossing where surveillance is hard to police

You want to leave a open area to cattle the haitian to that area, this way it is easy to manage who is crossing and who is legal

What position did Sigfrido Pared get promoted to? Enquiring minds want to know.

MJEV.

He will get a lot of BS from the international community and "human rights", but I expect this man to do the right thing and not back down.

A Nationalist... It sounds good! That's what we need, not a Moneyalist!

"Written by: williom, 8 Mar 2011 11:04 AM

The border cannot be 300 miles. In a previous DT article, it's 130 miles:
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....ans-Dominican-Republicsealsborder

I roughly calculated it with Google Maps, and it's about 165 miles or 265 kilometers along its jagged line."

So now the cost are smaller at say 265 million dollars. But it will be a big effort to get this going. International pressure will be great. Too many people want to blame DR for Haiti's plight. Unless, DR can find internal financing, I see it very unlikely that international funds will be made available to get this project going and sustaining it until finished. That said, having pieces completed along the most porous areas would enhance the efforts to police the border region. And this will costs far less than the quarter billion dollar effort needed to fully close off the border. Another way is to build the wall in stages: do the high return regions first, and so on.

" Vamo' a ve' "

Let's see what a nationalist is about. if its the meaning I give it a nationalist should secure the borders and sea ways first. Cut off the incoming illegal traffic now with massive immigration border guards. Tax the businesses that employ the cheaper Haitian labor at the injury of our own construction labor force's development. The Haitian labor would not be needed as much if big business would pay decent wages. This obviously as Pepe32 pointed out can only be accomplished with government cooperation. Let's see if LF is growing some or is it just for appeasement of the exasperated Dominican townspeople. Roundup of illegal s should come after frontier is secure otherwise they return

Action must be implemented immediately backed by emergency funds to immigration to hire, train young Dominicans to serve their country and invest in high tech surveillance. This would be a lot quicker than walls.

Besides who do you think would be hired to build the wall cheap quick but soun

Let's hope this is for real but meanwhile I don't trust Leonel!

No more contraband, drugs smuggling, and guns smuggling? All Big Big money makers! Let's live and learn before we put the cart in front of the horse.

@ Pepe- unlike the Crazy 88's on this forum clad to see you are perhaps a student of the Prince and understand Politics.

Sidenote - those of you wishing for a wall it will never happen for two reasons one Economics too many people on both sides like things just the way it is, including those whose duty it is to protect the border. Second where will the funding be coming from. I would like to know which one of you genius would like to present this idea to the Int'l community and ask for funding(considering the fact you have to borrow for everything ).

Actually I was thinking that there is a simple and effective way to seal the border: land mines. They are relatively cheap and easy to replace. They can cover large areas and different terrain. And in the case of the DR could be placed within our territory with other more traditional obstacles along the border. The maze would be very difficult and time consuming to travel illegally. Thus, almost all attempts would fail. The fact that a few deaths will occur will act to build up its operational efficiency and deterrent value. With 130 plus miles of border area to contain, this option may offer the best bang for the buck of all the options available. The Mountain passages would come to a dead end, as traveling through them will become prohibited. A few border crossing with heavy border patrols will be the only save and legal option available. Everyone but the criminals, the human traffickers, etc., will be happy with this outcome.

The land mines could be augmented with Vodoo images to ward-off would be illegal travelers with their human cargoes, illegal drugs, and other stuff. A few Watch towers placed at say 2 mile intervals, 130/2=65. Each tower would cost 4 million pesos and be equipped with 4 person accommodations, toilet, and basic electronic equipment for communications. With modern communication devices, a few solar panels for electricity, a small generator for back-up, and weekly rotations of staff, a small crew of 65 x 4 x 2=260 x 2=520 plus 1 General and a few lieutenants could effectively seal the border. Again, the established and modern crossing points would be managed under modern hygienic terms and a modern, professional system of border crossing standards institutionalized. The old ways of doing business gone.