Primero los dominicanos”, dice Omar en EE.UU.

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00:00And let me say this very clear.

00:02We 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

00:11of the process, innovation, sophistication and efficiency in order to not be needing

00:20as much man labor from Haiti as we do right now.

00:25Also we have to take care of our Dominican people on good salaries.

00:29We 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.

00:51So it's 80% Dominican to protect obviously our people and 20% labor from another country,

00:58foreign.

00:59Obviously it's Haitian in our particular case.

01:04And so on that, never more than 20%.

01:08We have to protect our 80% and we have to look forward in order to be more than 80% all

01:14the time, you know.

01:15And after we take care of all of that, then we can see what we will do with our neighbors

01:22on 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

01:32to their country and we have to enforce the law like we should always in the Dominican Republic.

01:37Yeah.

01:41Yeah.

01:42Absolutely.

01:42Thanks.

01:47Thanks, build a way.