An Unspeakable Report

This time, the stale and repetitive report from the U.S. Department of State about the human rights situation in the Dominican Republic includes an aspect that openly lays bare the intention of the United States, sometimes hidden in the cloak of diplomacy, to consciously and expressly violate sacred and irrefutable principles of sovereignty and self-governance.

Blatantly and to the benefit of its own economic and geopolitical interests, through reports that address issues of terrorism and drug and human trafficking, Washington designates itself the center of the world, with the authority to judge and condemn nations signatory to the United Nations Charter; meanwhile, Uncle Sam is not accepting of being judged by international jurisdictions at any moment.

This time, the policeman has gone so far as to accuse the Dominican government and state of violating the human rights of immigrants and their descendants, the majority of them Haitians, by denying them citizenship, which, it goes without saying, is associated with the defamation being spread internationally that we promote apartheid here.

Even though, as it regards the Dominican Republic, this report emphasizes famous out-of-court crimes, domestic violence and gender persecution, American political elites — backed by foundations and nongovernmental organizations — have always managed to typecast native citizens as the violators of immigrant rights with a strong tendency toward slavery.

The Constitutional Court sentence that determines the extent of judicial support as related to citizenship and immigration has served as a pretext for these groups to be able to consolidate an inaccurate accusation against the Dominican state, with the malicious intent of binding it to technical and economic aid, which the White House and U.S. Congress supply.

With all its political power and economic structure, it must be that the United States lacks morals in order to be calling attention to a nation that assures the organization and regulation of immigration flow and has thoroughly cleared up the scope of the universal figures of “jus solis” and “jus sanguinis.” And what’s more, it offers paths so that undocumented persons and their descendants can legalize their immigration status through a judge’s ruling on constitutional control.

The chancellor has complied with his duty and obligation to vehemently object to this disgusting report, whose content goes against national sovereignty and draws an interventionist line, which the Dominican government and people declare unacceptable — especially the clear intention to prohibit the right of the state to determine the extent of citizenship and regulate migration.

As the foreign minister proclaimed regarding this report, only the paper on which it was written has any value, since it is a considerable waste; it would be best for the Department of State to embrace the rules of recycling solid waste.