Santo Domingo.- The historians Mu Kien Sang Ben and Roberto Cassá have stated their concern on Haitian immigration and warn of future problems for the Dominican Republic.

They propose a collective, firm and consistent position for the country to keep the international community from sidestepping its commitment with Haiti’s political, economic and social stabilization.

As an example of the international community’s little interest to solve Haiti’s problems, Sang Ben affirmed that most of the aid pledged after the January 12 quake has yet to arrive.

“They shouldn’t leave the country alone. In that sense, Dominican Republic has shown its side of solidarity, the Government as wells as civil society, but the Haitian topic has to be an international concern. There are many promises the international organisms haven’t kept.”

“The international community hasn’t done anything for Haiti. What it has done is simply insignificant and in many aspects counter-productive: there isn’t a serious proposal in relation to the drama of the Haitian people. In fact what there is, is indifference,” said Cassá.

He said the tendencies show that the Haitian presence will continue growing and constitutes a “very complicated problem” for the country, because it doesn’t require that immigration and which can generate some problems that “may be delicate in the future.”

Cassá said the topic should be at the center of the nation’s agenda to take measures that regulate the Haitian presence in the country and which establishes a temporary flow of immigrants and only for certain tasks.

He acknowledges that Haitian immigration has some necessary aspects, as the economic agents show, but the nation should seek “a study and legalization to prevent the processes of exacerbated exploitation and mistreatment of the Haitian manpower”.

He said given the weaknesses of the Haitian State, “which doesn’t have the material means to regulate anything,” the Dominican authorities have to take the initiative and draft a migratory policy.

“The Haitian State is in a situation of minimum possibilities of exercising its sovereignty and the implementation of policies. The Haitian people are a very weak State and therefore, Haiti has a very complex agenda for reconstruction and a reversal of its situations.”