El senador por el Distrito Nacional, Omar Fernández, afirmó en Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) que debe hacerse un esfuerzo por mecanizar los sectores agrícola y de construcción para reducir al mínimo la dependencia de mano de obra extranjera, mayoritariamente haitiana.
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00:00And let me say this very clear, we always have to think about Dominicans first.
00:06We have to think and the government has to play an important role on helping on the mechanization of the process,
00:13innovation, sophistication and efficiency in order to not be needing as much man labor from Haiti as we do right now.
00:24Also, we have to take care of our Dominican people on good salaries.
00:28We have to make this kind of jobs more attractive for Dominican people.
00:33They have to be paid well with dignity so we can protect first our local labor.
00:39Then we have to enforce the law on the 80-20.
00:42I don't know if you know what the 80-20 is, but the bill says, our current legislation says,
00:46that you cannot do more than 20% of foreign labor on a company.
00:50So it's 80% Dominican to protect, obviously, our people and 20% labor from another country, foreign.
00:58It doesn't matter the country.
00:59Obviously, it's Haitian in our particular case.
01:04And so on that, never more than 20%.
01:08We obviously have to protect our 80%.
01:09And we have to look forward in order to be more than 80% all the time, you know.
01:14And after we take care of all of that, then we can see what we will do with our neighbors on the other side of the island.
01:23So I wanted to state that very clear because I think that the Dominicans always come first.
01:28Anyone that is in a regular status, irregular status in the Dominican Republic, has to go back to their country.
01:33And we have to enforce the law like we should always in the Dominican Republic.