Numerous human rights organizations and bodies denounced the 2013 rule, and in 2014, President Danilo Medina passed a “Naturalization Law” allegedly aimed at restoring status to those whose births are in the national registry. However, the law included prohibitive documentation requirements and inequitable government processing of paperwork. When the government set a June 2015 deadline for people to register or face deportation, tens of thousands fled or were forced out.

“The Dominican Republic is denying tens of thousands of citizens their right to a nationality, and despite mixed messages, people are being detained and shoved over the border,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, in late June. Thousands have resettled in squalid camps in Haiti.

“Tens of thousands of Dominicans born in the Dominican Republic, many whose families have lived in the country for generations, are required under Dominican law to self-report as foreigners, and they risk being expelled to a country that is utterly unknown to them,” Keane Bhatt, a returned volunteer who served in the Dominican Republic from 2008 to 2010, told Common Dreams.

“The Dominican government has used the pretext of sovereignty to obscure the reality that its security forces routinely violate the rights of darker-skinned Dominicans,” Bhatt continued. “But these are not independent actions—the abusive security forces are supported by U.S. taxpayers and trained by the U.S. military.”  

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