The National Council of Business (Conep), the leading Dominican business organization, has greeted as positive the “Bill that Establishes a Special Regime for Persons Born in the National Territory and Were Irregularly Registered in the Dominican Civil Registry and on Naturalization” that was submitted by the Presidency last week.
Conep says it was a priority to find a humanitarian solution to the cases of persons directly affected by the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13, but while respecting the guidelines established in the ruling. The Constitutional Court is the highest court in the Dominican Republic.
Former district attorney, Guillermo Moreno also spoke up in favor of the bill. He commented that while constitutionally debatable, he felt it was positive that it recognized Dominican citizenship to persons born in Dominican territory that already had received legal documentation from the government.
Moreno said that the time is right to demand that the government confront the mafias that profit from migratory chaos at the border with Haiti and that are behind the smuggling of merchandise, persons, drugs and arms.
Obispos respaldan proyecto de ley de Naturalización y Migración