Leonel Fernandez says the US statement is unfair
The former President of the Republic, Leonel Fernández, described as “unfair, inadmissible” the statement issued by the United States expressing concern about the “unequal treatment” based on skin color that Americans traveling to the Dominican Republic have received from authorities. local immigration.
“This is something unfair, unfair and something that must be strongly rejected by the Dominican Republic, as it has already been… What has been formulated is something that unfairly affects the Dominican Republic,” said the former president.
He expressed that the country cannot give in to the requirements of the United States, since the North American nation is the one that is intervening in the legitimate exercise of the Dominican Republic regarding its immigration policy.
“The Dominican Republic cannot give in to that, on the contrary, the United States must give in because basically it is intervening in the legitimate exercise that as a State corresponds to the Dominican Republic to determine its immigration policy,” he said.