Everyone Receives

The director of migration of the Dominican Republic, Jose Ricardo Taveras, says that everything is ready to initiate the deportation process, after the completion of the National Plan of Regularization of Foreigners, in June. Taveras expressed that the process deportation expects to deport:

“First the foreigners of other nationality in the country to leave voluntarily; then, who does not leave voluntarily, through various mechanisms established by law, will be referred to their country of origin.”

The International Court of Human Rights (IACHR) is organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), whose mandate is of the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The IACHR had found the Dominican Republic as “guilty to alleged violations of foreigners and Dominicans of Haitian descent were deported to Haiti without guaranteeing their rights,” in 1999-2000. Now ask the Dominican Republic to,

“Take steps to rescind any rules of any kind action, constitutional, legal, regulatory, administrative, or any practice or decision or interpretation that establishes or has the effect that the illegal residence of parents foreign motivate the denial of Dominican nationality to girls and boys born in the territory of Dominican Republic.”

“Adopt domestic legal measures necessary to prevent the Constitutional Court TC / 0168-13 of September 23, 2013 and the provisions of Articles 6, 8 and 11 of Law 169-14, issued on 23 May 2014, continue to produce legal effects.” In other words, everyone born in the Dominican Republic will be a Dominican.

“Adopt legislative measures, including, if necessary, constitutional, administrative and other measures necessary to regulate a procedure for birth registration should be accessible and simple, so as to ensure that all persons born on its territory they can be registered immediately after birth, regardless of their ancestry or origin and immigration status of their parents. “

Also commands the Dominican State to “pay the compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages, reimbursement of expense and expenses.”

With the process of deportation the Dominican Republic will not follow the petitions made by the IACHR, which stated that in case of not following such petitions “undermine the protection that persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Dominican State have before international bodies for the protection of human rights.”

With the deportations the Dominican economy is also being thrown into the game. According to former Haitian diplomat and government official, Edwin Paraison, “Dominican Republic is the most caring in the world to his neighbor, Haiti, for the contributions in health and education, while Haiti is a country on the planet that most contributes to the economic life of its counterpart.” Paraison implies that the Dominican Republic is attempting against its own benefit with the anti-Haitian concept. Dominican markets on the border benefit from the food dependency of Haiti, more important, these trades are crucial for producers and Dominican families. Haiti not only represents a market of about 2 billion annually to the Dominican Republic but it provides substantial capital whose amount, according to the Science and Arts Foundation, since 2007 over one billion. At the moment, according to Paraison, with the “new projects in the hotel, catering, real estate land and air transport, free zone and distribution of petroleum products among others” the capital should be doubled for the Dominican Republic.

Haitians being the most current passengers on the Joaquin Balager airport in the Dominican Republic and one of the top five passengers who travel in the other airports in the country, contributed to the 5.6 billions of dollars that the Dominican Republic made in 2014.

Of course the Dominican Republic is an Independent country that can make its own decisions. Nonetheless, the protection of human rights should be priority for the country. Additionally, the trades with its major consumer should be secured because in case that the Haitian country makes treated with other producers a lot of Dominican families and businesses will be in danger.

Works Cited

“CIDH Condena Sentencia Del Tribunal Constitucional De República Dominicana.” CIDH Condena Sentencia Del Tribunal Constitucional De República Dominicana. Ed. OEA. N.p., 6 Nov. 2014. Web. 19 Apr. 2015. <http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/prensa/comunicados/2014/130.asp>.

Leclerc, Isabel Leticia. “Migración Está Lista Para Deportaciones Cuando Concluya El Plan De Regularización.” Listindiario.com. Listin Diario, 15 Apr. 2015. Web. 19 Apr. 2015. <http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2015/4/14/363424/Migracion-esta-lista-para-deportaciones-cuando-concluya-el-Plan-de>.

Paraison, Edwin. “La Realidad Insular.” Acento. N.p., 11 Mar. 2015. Web. 19 Apr. 2015. <http://acento.com.do/2015/opinion/8229908-politica-y-economia-la-realidad-insular/>.

Vargas, Lauterio. “La CIDH Condena a RD Y Le Ordena Anular Sentencia.” El Caribe. N.p., 23 Oct. 2014. Web. 19 Apr. 2015. <http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2014/10/23/cidh-condena-ordena-anular-sentencia>.