The Migration Bill—which will be analyzed and debated in the upcoming Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP)—aims to regulate the Cuban migration process, under a systemic conception of development, aimed at achieving regular migration. , orderly and safe, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, the laws and international treaties on immigration matters.
Precisely as part of the broad legislative process, distinctive of Cuban socialist democracy, deputies elected by municipalities of Havana and other residents of the country’s capital enriched this proposed regulatory provision this Wednesday with their criteria, during a work meeting held in the National Capitol with the participation of the member of the Political Bureau Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the ANPP and the Council of State.
This legal norm has a transcendental importance, as part of the legislative schedule and in attention to the continuity of the updating of the immigration legislation that began in 2012 until the present and, in addition, it complies with the constitutional postulates that in the Article 52 of the Magna Carta establishes in a general sense the immigration rights that are outlined for people, said Lieutenant Colonel Roilán Hernández Concepción, head of the Legal Advisory Department of the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Foreigners of the Ministry of the Interior.
«This exercise, both for those of us who can participate in the drafting group of these legal provisions and for the deputies, allows us to receive opinions, clarify doubts and incorporate proposals that come from the meaning and vision of our people of the Cuban immigration process, their behavior and development. We can say that this project will be strengthened with the opinion of our people, expressed in the feelings of the deputies,” he acknowledged in statements to the press.
An intense debate on the proposed regulatory provision took place this Wednesday, with more than twenty interventions by parliamentarians, which contribute to having a more solid bill, based on the collective contribution and knowledge expressed in multiple opinions and proposals of the deputies. In this sense, Yaisel Osvaldo Pieter Terry, elected representative for the municipality of Ranchuelo, highlighted that this deep, enriching and broad debate of the bill is part of socialist, participatory and parliamentary democracy.
Also participating in the work session were Ana María Mari Machado and Homero Acosta Álvarez, vice president and secretary of the Cuban legislature, respectively; José Luis Toledo Santander, head of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Commission of the National Assembly; other directors of the parliamentary committees, as well as members of the drafting committee of this proposed legal norm.
