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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti NGOs
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 07, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : The Guardian
  Roberto Lovato in Santo Domingo and Sibylla Brodzinsky
  Friday 19 June 2015 21.05 BST
  
  Photo: Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent protest in Santo Domingo on Thursday. The window is now closed for undocumented migrants to apply for residency permits. Photograph: Ricardo Rojas/Reuters
  
  Hundreds of buses have been leaving Santo Domingo for the border for the past week and as the deadline to register has passed – many fear mass deportations
• Location : Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Website : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/haitians-in-hiding-dominican-authorities-free-deport

Overview

• Avenida Duarte in the Dominican capital is a busy bustling commercial street where hundreds of vendors – both Dominican and Haitian – normally clog the sidewalks selling everything from clothes to hot dogs.
  
  On Friday, however, a day after the window for undocumented migrants to apply for residency permits closed, the only salesmen and women working were Dominicans.
  
  This week saw the final deadline for the Dominican government’s “regularization plan” for residents of the country without documents – most of whom are Haitian or Dominicans of Haitian descent. Dominican authorities are now prepared to deport those who did not register.
  
  Daniel, 33, a Haitian immigrant, usually sets up his water and soft drinks stall on Duarte early. But he’s too afraid to be seen there now after being unable to register.
  
  “I’m scared to go back and sell because they might pick me up and send me home. I don’t want to be separated from my family,” said Daniel, whose two children were born in the Dominican Republic. “I really don’t know what to do, except stay home until we know what the government’s going to do.”
  
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