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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 07, 2015
• Views : 1488
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : The Guardian
  Sam Jones
  @swajones
  Thursday 6 August 2015 16.40 BST
  
  Photo: Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent protest outside the National Palace in Santo Domingo while waiting to register in the republic's controversial 'regularisation' programme. Photograph: Ricardo Rojas/Reuters
  
  Senior adviser to Dominican presidency issues strong rebuttal of expulsion claims but concedes ‘isolated cases and events’ have breached official protocol
• Location : Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Website : http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/06/dominican-republic-citizens-haitian-descent-arbitrarily-deported

Overview

• The Dominican Republic has strongly denied allegations that citizens of Haitian descent have been arbitrarily and illegally deported to Haiti following the government’s implementation of legislation designed to document and regularise the country’s population.
  
  It has, however, conceded that there have been “isolated cases” of people being stopped and searched before being taken to the border – and even, on at least one occasion, moved across it.
  
  Two years ago, the country’s constitutional court used a retroactive reinterpretation of the law to strip thousands of Haitian descent of Dominican citizenship. It ruled that while anyone born in the Dominican Republic between 1929 and 2010 was entitled to citizenship, those born to parents who were in the country as undocumented migrants were not.
  
  Previously, all children born in the Dominican Republic, except those considered to be in transit, such as the children of foreign diplomats, were granted citizenship. This included hundreds of thousands of children born to immigrants, once their birth was registered.
  
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