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04-25-2007, 05:40 PM
Legislators, jurists, political leaders and even historians have joined forces in demand for the government to define a clear immigration policy for the neighboring Haitian population. During a forum sponsored by the Dominican Committee for International Solidarity with Haiti, hundreds of professionals asked the government to call on the international community to come to Haiti's aid because the Dominican Republic cannot provide realistic solutions on its own to Haiti's poverty. Deputy Pelegrin Castillo called for a large-scale national mobilization to ask the government to put the Migration Law into practice as applied to nationality and regulation of immigrants. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations, Conchita Cabral, said that the Dominican state alone has the authority to define citizenship.
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