In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.
At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans.
According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
What we are witnessing is one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the western hemisphere, except this one is completely by choice.
The Dominican government recently opened seven deportation centers near the Haitian border, and gave them the Orwellian name of "welcome centers”.
The Dominican government has also requested 36 large passenger buses "be made available for continued use".
This is what happens when the world does hardly care about a country like Haiti.
Of course many Haitians would move to the only neightbour country they have and it will of course cause tensions in the Domenican Republic while the rest of the world was not interested to offer solutions and help Haiti to help itself.
And then when things escalate we are disgusted, despite the fact that this is disgusting.
Eh. This beef goes back almost 100 years, and is deeper than a bunch of Hatians being deported.
To just jump up and name the DR is racisme is completely ignorant, but hey, Muricans gonna Murica.
And people think racism and prejudice is only a problem between blacks and whites Americans.
The xenophobia in DR is sickening and not justifiable at all.
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