Over 250,000 Haitians and non-citizens of the Dominican Republic are facing deportation as officials in the Domincan Republic are scheduled to resume deporting non-citizens without legal residency in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic has mass deported non-citizens, mainly Haitians who come to their neighboring country for work, for decades. Last year the Dominican government declared that non-citizens who have been in the country before 2011 are the only ones eligible for legal residency. Some feel as though this is the country’s latest attempt to rid itself of Haitians.
According to FOX News, “Army Gen. Ruben Paulino said his agency, with help from the military, will begin patrolling neighborhoods with large numbers of migrants Thursday, following the expiration of a deadline for non-citizens without legal residency to register to adjust their status under an initiative begun last year.” This is in direct contradiction to claims stating that there would not be any mass roundups. However, it has been reported that there are currently 12 buses and processing centers along the border of Haiti and D.R. where people will be exiled.
That registration period had been suspended since June 2014 when it was first created but now Haitians and other migrants are rushing to meet the new deadline that is on Wednesday. The only problem is, many of the jobs obtained by the immigrants do not supply them with the necessary documentation to prove that they have been here before 2011. “You still have to bring more papers. It’s always hard, but we’ll see,” bricklayer Aime Morette told ABC News whiling waiting with over 100 others trying to escape deportation.
With over 250,000 people who have actually started the application process only 10,000 have met the requirements. To add insult to injury of those 10,000 people only 3,000 have actually received their permits.
Another issue for Haitians is establishing identity. Haitian government has made it hard and expensive to gain proper birth certification as well as other identity documentation within its country. One man who has been waiting for his birth certificate for months told ABCNews, “They always tell me it will come but they give me nothing,” he said.
This case has spark controversy all over the world but it is not the first time the Domincan Republic has been in the spot light for doing this. Back in 2013, their Supreme Court ruled that people born in the country to non-citizens after 1929 did not qualify for citizenship. This left thousands of people without the citizenship that they thought they once had. Since then the Dominican government said that there are plans in place to restore the nationality for more than 50,000 people who were affected by the ruling.
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Thats a sin
If it was true, it would be a sin. I don’t know why people do not get informed from partial sources ,,,,,,,But the reality of the matter is totally different. There a couple of million of illegal Haitians that are NOW claiming to be Dominican. The Dominican Republic can not take on all the ills of Haiti, when it’s Haiti who should be helping them so that they don’t leave the country is such an amount. The only country that made good on its promise to help was DR, the only country is STILL helping them is DR, the only country spent millions of dollars without asking and taking Haiti’s resources is DR. But guess what ,,,,THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT IS BEING ATTACKED AND FORCED TO TAKE ALL THE ILLEGAL HAITIANS AND MAKE THEN CITIZENS IS ALSO DR ,,,,, Something is wrong with that picture, don’t you think??
Then those Dominicans need to jump on the same ship with the Haitians, carribeans, and other black people of the world right back to Africa because they’re BLACK too!!!! Self hate is real
Ignorant one island two different countries, so different nationalities nothing to do with blackness. Google it, it’s not hard.
The reason is the legality of their stay, NOT the color of their skin as you impplied. The DR has spent almost FOUR MILLION DOLLARS trying to help the Haitians to get their paper so that they can be processed for legal residence or deportation (not massive as some idiots think) but HAITI does not want to help at all.
See how a little be of impartial reading can make look smarter?
THIS IS A TOTAL MYTH, THAT DR WENT AND HELP HAITI. A LOT OF THESE DR COs IN HAITI, WENT IN FOR OBTAINING CONTRACTS FROM THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, I WILL ADMIT SOME DID VERY WELL AND NEVER FINISHED THE JOBS. JUST LIKE THE RED CROSS THAT RAISED OVER .5BILLION DOLLARS AND SPENT ONLY 50,000 OUT OF THAT MONEY. THAT IS THE SHAMEFUL HELP HAITI GOT.
ONE THING I AGREE WITH U, THAT HAITI SHOULD BE PLANNING TO TAKE IN ALL OF THESE SO CALLED HAITIAN DOMINICANS IN, THEY REALLY NEED THEIR FARMING SKILLS AND CONSTRUCTION SKILLS MORE THAN EVER AND COMPETE IN THE WORLD STAGE, THE HAITIAN GOV,
KNEW THAT THIS WAS COMING AND SHOULD HAVE HAD ALL OF THE CO NTINGENCY PLANS IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.
I UNDERSTAND THE FEAR DR HAS, HAITIANS WERE MAKING TO MUCH INROAD IN DR LIFE, EMPLOYERS DO PREFER TO HIRE HAITIANS THAN DOMINICANS IN DR.
How could it be a “total myth” my friend? I was there I saw regular people risking their lives, I saw Dominican mothers giving Haitian babies their milk because their mother’s was dried up and were facing death. I hope that you’ll agree that, the Haitian elite does not care in least about the poor Haitians that have crossed over to DR illegally and many have stayed and have not being deported for lack of resilience by the DR government.
There is no fear at all from the Dominican people towards the people of Haiti, believe you me, no fear at all because there are plenty of skilled Dominican workers. it is not because of skills that the Dominican elite wants the Haitian workers there, but because they are cheap labor, which I do not subscribe to because everyone should be paid a fair wage for their labor.
You are correct in what you say about the theft that has occurred in Haiti of the money that was given to help them. There are at this moment 141 NGO’S in Haiti, why do you think they are there, top help Haiti or to help themselves to the money available? This include the Clinton’s, and others, even a famous Haitian singer was involved in the money theft.
I have already mentioned all the money that DR has and is spending to help the illegal Haitian while Haiti has spent ZERO to help them regularize their status.
Please remember, the Haitian government DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE POOR HAITIANS, therefore they prefer to leave them in DR living, not much better conditions, but at least they will get FREE medicine, schooling, food and many other things that even Dominicans do not get.
After all these, some UN & ILL-informed are going around bashing DR and calling for a boycott on DR tourism (get who really benefits from that)
WOW!!!!! so you actually believe that DR did not go to help Haiti? I used to doubt what a person THAT WENT WITH ME TO HELP HAITI when he said that Haitians were the most ungrateful people he ever met. He told me that even kids if gave them something, they would look to the ground or away from you so that they don’t have to thank you later. I actually tested this, I got up early one morning to take a walk and saw a boy of about 11 years of age. He asked me for money, I gave him a bill as he took the money he looked down and once he had the money secured in his hand HE RAN AWAY WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. I told that to my friend who was also HELPING HAITIANS WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT, OUT OF OUT OF OUR OWN MONEY RENTED A COUPLE OF HELICOPTERS TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE ASAP SO WE CAN HELP.
I have never told anyone about any of this, but now you gave me the opportunity to share.
I can send you pictures I took of many women lactating Haitian babies because the mothers were dried up and could not feed them. People being dug out and fed. You might be surprised to to know, that even to this day, HAITIAN DOCTORS ARE INSTRUCTING HAITIAN WOMEN TO GO AND HAVE THEIR BABIES IN DR (Haitian women have an average of 7.8 babies while Dominican only have an average of 2 babies).
It sure is a shame that some people risk their lives to help a people in need (this has been going on for 157 years now) and all they get in return is ungrateful backstabbing, smearing campaign internationally AND EVEN BY THE ILLEGAL HAITIANS IN DR (their asses should be gathered up and returned for that one reason alone)
I really, really wish that Haiti gets on its own two feet and stop blaiming others for their failed state. The poor people in Haiti deserve better.
I don’t know if I ever asked you these couple of questions but ,,,
1) Where are the white, mulatto and rich Haitians in all this struggle?
2) Were do you think that the thousands of criminals that escaped from the torn down prisons went?
3) What should DR do with the two millions that were allowed to enter into DR right after the earthquake in order to be helped (but we, according to you did not help), had a bunch of babies, but now refuse to leave?
I hope that you understand that DR is a poor country and it can not take on all the ills of another even poorer one, just because the big powers grabbed oven FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS and refuse to give it back (they prefer to provoke a war between the two countries)
did you want a kid who has undergone a traumatic situation to kiss your feet. people like you we don’t need your help
I do regret it now that I see the kind of ungrateful fucks I wasted my time with ,,,,,
don’t regret it, don’t come back, you just like the others, you hate the haitians and you claim that you want to come help. were u trying to get some of then go $$$, you hypocritical fuck
Great response, you are just as bad all the other ungrateful fuckers. Just hope another well deserved earthquake don’t hit your asses. I don’t need money and surely NOT Haitian money ,,,,,,, We Dominicans are so fucking naive that is pathetic thinking that some day you fuckers would have the dignity to rise up and rebuild your own dammed place, but nooooo it’s easier to just leave it. You should all be ashamed ,,,,,,
Oh no, I’m going back, at the rate that you all are leaving, it’ll be empty by then 🙂 🙂 🙂
just look at my name, do a search on it. no one in haiti dare to fuck with us, not even presidents. people like me you will never find in dr. fuck like u wont even dare when we around. like you said we can start somewhere. start the genocide that trujilio started, you will get our response. the haitian army will be put in place in october, watch and see whose names will be among the leadership. i thank you for waking us up. we never forget, we are not like other blacks we dont forgive and we dont forget
Oh man, that is so scary. Did you say October? I’ll mark that date down so I can go down. I was born in the same place that the person you all have most feared was born and I have even more fire in my heart to help my country get rid of any ills ,,,,,,
Now, in October, like you said, don’t go around with your NGO’s begging for intervention, ok? We do have something ready for you and we won’t even used the army because then the international community will feel sorry and start to tell the US go and help you AGAIN ,,,,
Your name means shit to me, many with your same dumb-ass name have tried 18 times and you DO know what happen ,,,,,,,,
Hopefully you can rescue the 4,000,000 illegals that have crossed over and are saying that they are Dominican because they don’t want to go back to your kingdom ,,,,
We are all really scared. Please DO round up 2 or 3 hundred thousand of the illegal Haitians in DR and as many as you can with that ferocious name and try to go and over-throw the corrupt Haitian government. Maybe then the dignity and pride as a people will return to Haiti. We Dominican want you all to get better IN HAITI and hopefully all return to their beloved country ,,,
Dominicans hate to accept that its one island everyone is black
One island two different countries, so different nationalities nothing to do with blackness. Google it, it’s not hard.
Wasnt the country one country at one point google that dick eater and what separates it a line in the sand like i said they hate to accept the fact !
It may have been hundreds years ago just like parts of the US was part of Mexico. So should we allow all Mexicans in the US?
they are here and we don go in their homes breaking their stuff up. if us didnt allow immigrants here i dont think my family would exist and we do allow mexicans as long as u get your papers we arent “socially cleansing”. my point is alot of dominicans dont not like o admitt the are black but say they are dark cuz their are native American and not afro latino and u know thats the case be real
You’re so ignorant it is not even funny. Go to school, read and educate yourself.
Is she wrong though.. I’m Hispanic.. I know LOTS of Dominicans.. THEY HATE TO SAY THEY ARE BLACK.. It’s quite comical.. They are some self hating people.. Lmaoo
That’s because we are not “BLACK”. We are Dominicans period. We do’t suffer that AfroCentrism they teach in American schools. We’re the oldest society in the Americas. Our families are more racially integrated than any other families. We didn’t suffer slavery like the US did. Who are you to tell us what we are?
it was the Haitians who abolished slavery in DR
By murdering people over a 22 year invasion? We didn’t suffer the same slavery you did. Get it together.
You don’t make any sense.
It is NOT too smart to judge an entire group without any knowledge, but, any ways, that is NOT the issue. The reason is the legality of their stay. The DR has spent almost FOUR MILLION DOLLARS trying to help the Haitians to get their paper so that they can be processed for legal residence or deportation (not massive as some idiots think) but HAITI does not want to help at all.
See how a little be of impartial reading can make look smarter?
4 million dollars??? That’s all??America spends more than that for all these illegal people over here. But you don’t see our government lining up boats trying to send them (you) back to their (your) country so go ahead with that. half of y’all have passed your stay over here. Dominicans ARE racist!!! I’m sure you’re happy to see this happen.
Please do not show stupidity by assuming how I feel. I have Haitian friends and we do talk about this problem in a civilized manner. Believe it or not, they do see the point for the most part. Hey,whenever they catch one of us staying here, illegally, burning flags, attacking the police, taking dumps in the streets, please do deport us. Playing the little race card and self pity can last but for so long. A little bit of open minded and impartial reading would do wonders. I am black, I am in this country legally and I abide by its laws and do not expect to be treated with more special than anyone else. I do what any law abiding citizen is supposed to do especially in a foreign country. I do not hate the Haitians at all, but at some point people have to understand that a poor country should NOT be forced to take on all the ills of another even though DR does help Haiti a lot.
Boy bye my grandmother is of Dominican descent and its a well k nwn thing that the dr does not like Haitians, and will go to war to let you know that they have no parts of Haitian in them and news flash 4 million dollars to a country is not a considerable amount of money considering all the tourism revenue they have . IF you read u wold know that some Haitians in th DR have been held by DR families as SLAVES . see how a little biased reading can warp your feeble brain
Well well, maybe YOUR grandmother is that way. But just because I have a dumb-ass in my family it does not mean that something becomes “a well known fact” and 4 million dollars IS a lot, compared to what Haiti is willing to give to help its own people ZERO!!!! I like your last line, I’m you stole it from me, but will surely let you use since it does show that you don’t have capacity to come up with your own. Please don’t even say “feeble mind” I read your post so that really would not sit well because i see you are generalizing just like lots of other very little informed individuals. I do commend you for giving it a try though,
my grandmother was never like that and was no dumbass
IF
THE 500,000 HAITIAN-DOMINICAN NATIONALS WERE TO RISE UP, DR IS
FINISHED, NO TOURISM, TOTAL ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN. TO DESTROY DR, HAITI
SHOULD STOP TRADING WITH THEM. YOU WILL SEE HOW FAST THEY CHANGE THEIR
POLICIES. TO TIGHTEN THE NOOSE AROUND THEIR NECK, DONT ALLOW THE
HAITIAN-DOMINICANS IN HAITI YET.
THE 500,000 HAITIAN-DOMINICANS UNDER DEPORTATION CAN RUN HAVOC IN THAT COUNTRY. HAITIANS SHOULD BE JUST AS NASTY AS THEY ARE
I would really love to see that happen. We all must start somewhere. Please do check and see how you can make that happen, ok? Do us that big favor
Mulatto
dominicans are next, because dominican are sick. soon they will import some eastern european to lighten up theircountry
Mr. Lyonel Thanks for referring to as “Mulato”, even though you do see my name on the post, but I guess it’s easier for some people to interject the little race card whenever possible. One thing I’ve learned from dealing with people of all backgrounds is that we all show our intelligence and sense inner confidence by the way communicate and treat others.
Why would you refer to us Dominicans as sick? From what have heard and seen for many years, and you might want to verify on your because you, albeit misguided, seem to be a pretty bright person, it might be the other way around. Please feel free to check the statistics and some pictures of how the Bahamas treated the Haitians (including women and children) that were being deported. Take a look at the news and the cholera, AIDS and various other epidemics before you would consider calling an entire people “sick”.
It might surprise you to know that even though the risk of getting some contagious disease, Dominicans are spending well over a quarter of it’s resources to help the sick Haitians in Dominican hospitals and even traveling to Haiti to help them ,,,,, I guess the word ungrateful should be coming to the mind of every Dominican whenever the the race and boycott cards are pulled out. But, as the good old book says “BE YE THANKFUL”
Hello Mr. Lyonel Duperval:I know that, most likely, I’m wasting my time in replying to your comment, but I’ll take the chance.
First of, the Haitian constitution itself defines who is a Haitian citizen and who is not, NOT you, me, the international community or any other uninformed idiot.
Second of all, The Dominican constitution defines who is a Dominican citizen and who is not, again, NOT you, me, the international community or any other uninformed idiot.
Thirdly, the use of the race card has already run its course, so my suggestion to you is, try a different approach that does not involve personal attack on a whole group of people based on biased ignorance.
In fourth place, there are NOT 500,000 “haitian-dominicans” in the country. They are HAITIANS that happened to be born in DR. according to what I already mentioned in my first and second points.
Last, but not least, calling the Haitian in DR to “rise up” is nothing but a dream of yours because you people are way to used to someone else fighting your battles AND in the last 157 years since the DR kicked the Haitians out, they have tried 18 time and got beaten extremely bad on 16 of them. One thing that you might want to keep in mind IN ALL THOSE BATTLED HAITIANS DOUBLED AND EVEN TRIPLED IN AMOUNT, BUT STILL GOT BEATEN.
My advise to you is: If you really want to help your Haitian fellow men, advise them to work to fix their own country and use AND be thankful for all the help that DR has supplied to them.
Dignity start by, loving yourself enough and think of your country with enough love that you are willing, no matter what the circumstance, the rebuild it instead of just massively leaving it and destroying all its resources.
There is so much more information I can share with you, like the millions of dollars spent helping the Haitians with, hospital and university IN HAITI and the millions of dollars of our own resources helping the ILLEGAL Haitians in DR. I think this little bit can get you started. Did you noticed, how I did not use the race card or personal attack that can diminish a person’s credibility?
Thanks for reading with an open mind,
Jeses Manuel De Los Santos
Actually, I hope that the at least 2,000,000 illegal Haitians in DR rise up against the country. That’s the only was we’ll be able to get rid of them. Otherwise we are screwed because neither the Haitian government, the Haitian elite, the white Haitian, the mulatto Haitians give a flying F&#%^ about them. Why do you think that over 80% of them in the country are even registered as citizens in their own country? I don give a fu^&$ about color, am black and know more about being black than most of those ignorant attackers. I just want my country to be able to live peacefully ,,,,,
You couldn’t be dumber if you tried. You just proved you’re racist. PR people have no pride you’re leeches of the US. No identity whatsoever…
LOL
Go to school, educate yourself, learn some Caribbean history, it’s not all drugs and reggeaton….. These boris are some crazy f’ers………
Lol…
Good day. You’ve proved my point about you people.
I just discovered some PRicans are racist racist. How shameful as I love PR women and they love me too….. I’m pretty sure it’s just a minority……….
Awww Manny 🙁 I’m NOT racist against DR people or anyone else for that matter. I just merely told you what I have experienced with “Some” Dominican people. ‘Some’ actually know their African roots..lol unlike yourself 🙂 Yes, you’re right I love DR men “Some” xoxo
And I told you we’re not AfroCentric. In general, we don’t care about any of our European, African, Asian, whatever roots, we’re Dominicans period. It’s hard for people in the US to understand that. We don’t come from the same paradigm African Americans do.
But I take your statement as you didn’t intend to make broad generalization and only meant for a minority of “Dominican” so I take everything I said before back. I’m a man of peace and love. 😉
i do admit he has a point, the haitian government should start taking action, plan the logistic and settlement of these haitian-dominicans, haiti should always accept its own, one drop of haitian blood is haitian, im pretty sure the dominican mulattoes are next on line for expulsion, since they too have some haitian blood and are a little dark to pass , haitian should accept them too, until DR becomes light enough and import some eastern european to lighten the complexion of dominican some more.
i guess about a million polish, half a million jews, some syrians and iraquis will do the job by 2050, the DR complexion will be at least as light as the puertoricans.
Hello Ms. ApMillz-CT: Please do not show ignoranse by refering to an entire group a if you knew them all. We are very aware the we have black in us THAT IS A FACT THAT. Just like you do too, but no one forces you to say go around preaching blackness, black power or anything to that effect., Just like you feel, I’m sure, very comfortable saying “I’m Puerto Rican…” we can go around and say that we are Dominicans. Please don’t let some people guide you wrong and make fall into the race card bit. How would you feel if I said the same about your ethnic group as a whole (and I quote youhere) “You people are some self hating mutha f’ers its soo funny!!!!!!!” you people are Japanese, or white or Indian or black?
Don’t fault an entire group for the pride of being Dominican because I would applaud you if were going around also feeling proud of being Puerto Rican, no matter the status of your state or commonwealth may be.
In my life I have met, helped and built beautiful relationships with lots of people from Puerto Rico and value the pride that they have for being Puerto Rican first, NOT a color ,,,,,
Hope you reconsider extending your knowledge of us as a people and we are going thru at this moment and have been for the 157 years ,,,
Have yourself a wonderful day,
Jesus Manuel De Los Santos