Pres­i­dent of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Luis Abi­nad­er, has an­nounced a se­ries of mea­sures aimed at bol­ster­ing bor­der se­cu­ri­ty and tight­en­ing mi­gra­tion con­trol as its neigh­bour, Haiti, con­tin­ues to be faced with po­lit­i­cal and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

The 15 new mea­sures will in­clude ac­cel­er­at­ing the con­struc­tion of the bor­der wall that sep­a­rates the two coun­tries and adding 1500 ad­di­tion­al sol­diers for bor­der sur­veil­lance.

“We will step up sur­veil­lance of the bor­ders with 1,500 ad­di­tion­al troops, on top of 9,500 al­ready de­ployed,” Abi­nad­er told a news con­fer­ence on Sun­day. H said he has since ap­proved the con­struc­tion of a new sec­tion of a wall that sep­a­rates the two coun­tries – which share the sec­ond-largest is­land in the Caribbean.