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Sentence 168 from the Constitutional Tribunal is one year old

The historic decision continues generating conflicting opinions

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Sentence 168 from the Constitutional Tribunal is one year old
SD. The criteria that foreigners in transit do not have the right to be granted Dominican nationality, marked a history of binding jurisprudence which maintains a red-hot and unstoppable political - immigration discussion in the country.

The decision contained in sentence TC/0168/13, of the Constitutional Tribunal relating to the case of the descendent of Haitian parents, Juliana Deguis Pierre, is one year old today with an internal and external debate evermore heated.


Over this last year, the high court has replicated its decision in more than 12 sentences which involve dozens of descendents of undocumented Haitians that want the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to order the delivery of the personal identification card and voter registration card called the cédula and their birth certificates.


The decision "gave birth" to a mixed bilateral commission between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, audits of the Civil Registry, Law 169 - 14 on the Special Regime and Naturalization, and decree 250 - 14 which regulates the application of the law. This last instrument has become a sort of Gordian knot for the sectors that question the "flexibility" of the requirements established for undocumented persons to be able to prove their birth or their long stay on Dominican soil.

The controversial decision brought the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, to the country last June. Biden congratulated President Medina for the quickness with which the Congress approved the Naturalization Law. In July the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy also visited the country and greeted the efforts to find a consensus regarding the special law that regulates the status of the persons of foreign origin who are born in the Dominican Republic.

At the beginning of 2014, President Medina "sounded off" against the attacks by groups at the international level, as he gave an emotional and energetic speech before the Chiefs of state and of Government that took part in the II CELAC Summit, where he said that he would not accept "anyone large or small who tries to go against the sovereignty of the Dominican Republic."