Roberto Rosario, president of the electoral commission, insisted that the government is not denying anyone the right to a nationality,
Robert Rosario, the head of the electoral commission, says that he is not taking away anybodies right to have a nationality.
The ruling by the Constitutional Court is final and gives the electoral commission one year to produce a list of people to be excluded from citizenship.
The decision by the Courts is final and the states have 1 year to make a list of people who are set to lose their citizenship.
Despite measures adopted by the government in 2014, tens of thousands of people, mainly of Haitian descent, remained stateless by the end of 2016
Even though the government in 2014 put new policies into effect, in 2016 many people, many of which are Haitian, remained without a state to identify with.
“the situation of statelessness… that has not yet been completely corrected after the measures adopted by the Dominican State, is of a magnitude never before seen in the Americas.”
The amount of people without a state to identify is scarily high even though the Dominican State adopted these new policies.