SANTO DOMINGO.- A veteran lawmaker today said "powerful foreign interests and local accomplices" seek to ignore the State’s legislation on nationality, immigration and civil registry, and warned Dominicans to become responsible and militant against what he described as a dangerous antinational maneuver.

The FNP party deputy Pelegrin Castillo said the National District Court 3rd Civil Chamber verdict ordering the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to issue a birth certificate to a minor of Haitian parents "is the result of machinations by those sectors which have influence in the judicial power."

"Those sectors which from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and France unleash defamation and intimidation campaigns and have managed to postpone the Immigration Law from taking effect now try to revert the Supreme Court’s important decision of 2005 regarding nationality, to declare that only the children born in the national territory whose of foreign parents who have legal residence will acquire the nationality," he said.

In a press conference, the FNP leader and lawyer said the national public powers don’t have to yield before those sectors’ "blackmail and pressures. If these people have their way, we’ll be observing the beginning at the end of the Dominican Nation, because a state that cannot defend its positions regarding nationality, immigration, border and civil registry, can undeniably be considered insolvent."

Castillo said those sectors have a strategic plan to find a space in Dominican Republic to solve Haiti’s serious problems, as the cost to rebuild in his view is too high and the long term results are uncertain.

"That sentence also constitutes, an element of the plan, to implant a national minority with political rights, which is a fundamental demand of the Haitian movements organized in Dominican Republic, headed by Sonia Pierre, Jan Batiste Latorti and other leaders," the lawmaker said.