- Thread starter RDKNIGHT
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what DR is building a wall..... I hope it's not the same time frame as Trumps wall
They only build it to channel the bribes for entering to some easy to control spots...
Only 17 Km of a 376 Km border.
Gotta start somewhere.
After they finish, they can come up with a snowbird visa, you know, one where you can be in the country longer than 30 days and be legal as long as you are not from Haiti.
I'm liking that snowbirds visa idea. But I think us snowbirds are paying for it anyway with our residency fees and general screw over tax of 18% on pretty much everything
A few years ago Haiti build a wall on a few kilometers of the border (something ignored by most of the media outside the two countries) claiming it was losing custom taxes due to people crossing at will. The wall forces people to use the official channels. I wonder if the Dominican wall is a continuation of the Haitian one. Consuelo Despadrel went to the border and filmed the wall with beautiful patriotic murals on the Haitian side. I'll see if I can find the video or some image captions of the same.
A few decades ago a Dominican group visited Israel to see the wall they built. Israel offered the DR a preferential deal, but the Dominican president at that time completely ignored the offer. I think at that time the projected cost of the wall was US$300 million, which was considerably cheaper than the first line of SD Metro.
When Hipolito was president an high ranking Israeli official while visiting SD with an official group from there, told him that the Haitians are not suppose to cross the border at will. His response was that the DR doesn't have a problem with the Haitians, and that was that. :smoke:
A few decades ago a Dominican group visited Israel to see the wall they built. Israel offered the DR a preferential deal, but the Dominican president at that time completely ignored the offer. I think at that time the projected cost of the wall was US$300 million, which was considerably cheaper than the first line of SD Metro.
When Hipolito was president an high ranking Israeli official while visiting SD with an official group from there, told him that the Haitians are not suppose to cross the border at will. His response was that the DR doesn't have a problem with the Haitians, and that was that. :smoke:
