The actions against the Dominican Republic by Haitian campaign groups over the sentence by the Constitutional Court, which confirms the years long criteria for obtaining nationality do not stop, even as talks are starting to find a way to legalizing those residing in the Dominican Republic, including foreigners. This strategy is combined with a petition from the president of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Kamla Persad Bissessar, who asked President Danilo Medina to not enforce the sentence issued by the court.
A group calling itself the 4 December Collective says that it aim is to push the Dominican state to reconsider the controversial 23 September sentence. They issued a call to the Haitian nation and government to boycott Dominican trade on Haitian soil. The former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Haiti, Jean-Robert Argand, the current coordinator of the group, says they are taking this approach because trade is the main area where the Haitians can hurt the Dominican Republic’s interests.
He says that the 4 December Collective is making a request to the Haitian government to “take all measures in order to force compliance with the rights of our citizens beyond our borders, as well as inside the country. Strengthen customs controls, help and guide our importers in the urgent identification of alternative sources with the neighboring countries that are not the Dominican Republic”, according to an article in the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste.