In today’s Diario Libre editorial, executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada writes that the inventory of the number of birth declarations made by foreigners in the Dominican civil registry can be taken in two ways: as a starting point for the solution of an urgent problem, or simply rejecting it for any reason.
Tejada considers that the first is more constructive. “It is an invitation for everyone involved in the problem to find a reasonable solution. The second is to try and perpetuate the disorder in which we have been living while now there is a will to resolve it.”
He says that the inventory did not cover the foreigners who are not included in the Dominican Civil Registry – of whom there are many more.
“In the case of Haitians, their low presence in the registry is due to several factors, including the lack of a registration culture in this country and the ghetto culture in which they live here. They did not need papers, and thus they did not register.”
He concludes by saying that it is essential to organize immigration and calls for giving the Regularization Plan a chance at resolving the problem.
[Roberto Rosario said in a recent TV interview with Hoy Mismo that a recent program in Haiti funded by the Organization of American States (OAS) succeeded in registering 4.2 million people. “This means that 60% of citizens in Haiti are not registered, because there is no culture of registration,” he said.]
www.diariolibre.com/opinion/2013/11/08/i410058_actitud-constructiva.html
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