Sunday, July 5, 2015


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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