As we secure the border, giving our people safety and security... or at least the illusion of security, there still remains tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence ocurring in their country. What happens to those that go into the border and are turned away? Back to their crisis torn country where they will inevitably turn to the criminals that besiege our country? Keeping out immigrants at all costs is a zero sum game, a necessity when it comes to political security but nonetheless a short sighted one in the grand scheme of things.

Of course, it would be a shame to not utilize this crisis to our advantage. While politically, securing the border would secure the PRD and help fulfill its "tough on migration" stance to the bemoaning of the humanists in the DR, economically we may see an opportunity. As more Dominicans earn higher wages and seek higher paying jobs in the country as well as service jobs, the more menial labor and shall we say "indentured" labor still needs to be done, and the Dominicans may not want to work anymore. So maybe, utilizing our connections with Dominican agribusiness and the "hacendados" we could help "procure" some manpower, captured from our many police interceptions for them to work in the plantations and newly opened manufacturing sites for pennies on the dollar. No distinction is made on their gender or age. It is a sad reality that despite the Dominican Republic being one of the freest and most democratic states in the Caribbean, it is also the country with one of the highest numbers of indentured workers and underclass personel under "slavery" like conditions. It is unlikely that this heinous practice would end any time soon. In the following weeks more and more "ghost workers" will appear on Dominican factories, working in the mills, assembly lines, coffee farms. Dominican construction companies will be awarded such labor in order to help with our construction boom of hotels, services, factories and indeed, the border wall itself. This highly amoral practice is to be promoted under the table of course. So as long as the international community does not find out what is actually going on under the surface...