The director of Migration Jose Ricardo Taveras has admitted the Dominican government has mismanaged migration for more than 100 years. He said the present authorities now needed to make amends for the shortcomings. In a TV interview with Hector Herrera Cabral on Sunday, 30 March, Taveras said that one of the ways to get around it would be to integrate these people into Dominican society. He made the point, nevertheless, that Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 needs to be respected.
“The Dominican state has to pay some price for the errors of its predecessors. We have had chaos in migration policies for more than 100 years and it is a moral duty to integrate those who are in the civil registry,” said Taveras.
He said in the government there is a firm will to resolve the human issues within the nation’s sovereignty.
Taveras defended Migration inspectors for not allowing Juliana Deguis to leave the country without a passport. He said all migration policies around the world rule that travel documentation is required, and in this case a passport. He criticized the attitude of US authorities that issued Deguis with a visa without her having a passport and then attributed her with Dominican nationality in the visa. “That was an unacceptable lack of courtesy, an unfortunate excess by the United States against a country like the Dominican Republic that has always showed solidarity and acted warmly and with respect,” said the officer.
He said that Juliana Deguis’s legal status could be regularized in less than 20 minutes but she has not wanted to and is being used by groups that profit from the situation and tragedy of the Haitian people.
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