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03-22-2010, 04:20 PM
Writing in Listin Diario today, lawyer Vinicio Castillo Seman warns that international pressures aimed at solving the problems in Haiti are motivating an increase in the flow of migration to the Dominican Republic. He comments on the recent United Nations report that criticizes what it calls "discriminatory and racist practices" in the DR towards Haiti, and a recent report from the US Department of State that criticizes that descendants of Haitians born in the Dominican Republic are not automatically granted Dominican nationality. The reports ignore Dominican law and the fact that the previous and present Constitution do not automatically grant Dominican nationality to children born in the DR unless they are offspring of legal residents.
Castillo writes that there are discussions abroad about the convenience of stimulating more Haitian migration to the DR as the international community sees this as the most viable and most economic solution to the problems in Haiti.
Castillo says that pressure needs to be exerted on the Dominican government to act. He says the government is timid to act when pressured by accusations of racism and discrimination to grant Dominican nationality to millions of Haitians. This practice he says would accelerate the fusion of the two countries.
He warns that the mass immigration would not only destroy the fundamental values of the Dominican nation but would drown the hope of Dominicans to improve their quality of life.
He says the increase in mass migration would worsen all human development indexes for the country.
"The hopes that we had that the international community would commit in a sincere way to rebuild basic infrastructure that Haiti needs in order to subsist, is waning with the passing of the days. What there is regarding aid to Haiti is a fight to determine who benefits from the latter, both inside and outside of that tragic nation," he writes.
"A serious error is being made with the aid plans for Haiti," he says. The international community is using the fictitious state institutions and government that are in place there as representatives for channeling billions of dollars worth of aid that will only end up with the insatiable, hungry and corrupt political and business sectors that are only interested in seeing how they can benefit, he writes.
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Castillo writes that there are discussions abroad about the convenience of stimulating more Haitian migration to the DR as the international community sees this as the most viable and most economic solution to the problems in Haiti.
Castillo says that pressure needs to be exerted on the Dominican government to act. He says the government is timid to act when pressured by accusations of racism and discrimination to grant Dominican nationality to millions of Haitians. This practice he says would accelerate the fusion of the two countries.
He warns that the mass immigration would not only destroy the fundamental values of the Dominican nation but would drown the hope of Dominicans to improve their quality of life.
He says the increase in mass migration would worsen all human development indexes for the country.
"The hopes that we had that the international community would commit in a sincere way to rebuild basic infrastructure that Haiti needs in order to subsist, is waning with the passing of the days. What there is regarding aid to Haiti is a fight to determine who benefits from the latter, both inside and outside of that tragic nation," he writes.
"A serious error is being made with the aid plans for Haiti," he says. The international community is using the fictitious state institutions and government that are in place there as representatives for channeling billions of dollars worth of aid that will only end up with the insatiable, hungry and corrupt political and business sectors that are only interested in seeing how they can benefit, he writes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)