After months of outspoken criticism, hearings at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C. as well as cases aired at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, OAS Secretary-General Luis Almagro is now praising the Dominican government’s immigration plan.
Almagro expressed his approval for the implementation of the plan to regularize the status of undocumented migrants and naturalize thousands of foreigners in the Dominican Republic.
“The issue of Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic is not an issue that worries the OAS because of the progress made by President Danilo Medina in his immigration policy,” said Almagro, speaking to El Nacional reporters at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Almagro continued: “There is probably no other country in the world that has made such a strong effort as the Dominican government to register so many people under these conditions.”
He made his comments after the agreement for the electoral observers mission for the 15 May election was signed between the Secretary-General of the OAS and the president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Roberto Rosario Marquez, who was accompanied by Dominican ambassadors Jose Tomas Perez and Pedro Verges.
