Dominican Plan to Expel Thousands of Haitians Tests Ties
A government plan that could deport thousands of
people of Haitian descent from the Dominican Republic has started to
tear at the unity that once bound the country.
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She
has no documentation, though not for lack of trying. She obtained an
affidavit with seven witnesses testifying that she was born in the
Dominican Republic. Two days before the government’s registration
deadline last month, the family received a letter stating that the
paperwork was insufficient.
“Imagine
if your wife was born here but faces deportation to a country she knows
nothing about,” said Roberto, who spoke on the condition that his
family not be identified by last name. “She would be taken away, and our
marriage and lives would be torn apart.”
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