Translation of Dominican Article about Haiti

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What a freaking shame, and to think we have a government.

Here is the translation of the article in question

From elnacional.com.do/article.aspx?id=...

SC said Haiti is the main problem RD

Federico Antún Batlle
BY ARÍSTIDES REYES
The president of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), engineer Federico Antún Batlle, said today that Haiti is the main problem facing the Dominican Republic as a nation.

He also said that there will be "significant announcements" at the summit this afternoon of seven opposition parties fighting the use and abuse of state resources in favor of the reelection of President Leonel Fernandez.

Antún Batlle considered as a "punishment" for the election campaign and inmediatismo not understand the scale of the problem that the country is the lack of a migration policy with Haiti.

"The problem is so great that the national productive apparatus depends on the labor illegal Haitian and that is extremely dangerous," said when interviewed by Persio Maldonado in Matinal 5.

He described as worrying the "avalanche" of Haitians daily, illegally penetrates to the Dominican Republic, without having to "take serious steps to prevent it."

He argued that "Haitian invasion" push the country because these illegal create demands for health, food, jobs and services that must be provided.

He added that such illegal Haitians removed Dominicans jobs because employers hired them to pay wages lower than those established by law.

The president of the PRSC warned that the "invasion" of Haiti could increase in the coming days, the result of the shortage of food in neighbouring nation, which has resulted in looting and deaths in commercial establishments "by people desperate for hunger."

Summit

Antún Batlle said that at 4:00 this afternoon is the third summit of the seven opposition parties that are fighting for the Government to discontinue the use of public funds for the re-election of Fernandez.

"This afternoon we will take meaningful measures announced in the context of that meeting to deal firmly waste of state resources in favor of a ruler who swore to respect and enforce the laws and have become its principal violator," he said.

Ala Traka, April 14 2008, 10:12 PM

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