On September 23, 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court issued a controversial ruling regarding citizenship. Historically, the Dominican Republic has given citizenship to all people born on its soil. However, a new constitution ratified in 2010 grants such protection only to children born to citizens or legal residents, and the Constitutional Court’s ruling authorized the government to review records going back to 1929, looking for people who no longer qualify for citizenship. More than 200,000 people, most of them descendants of Haitians, may in effect be left stateless. Haitians' human rights are being violated on a daily basis and some have even been killed. America has intervened to stop human rights violations in various countries and it should do so here as well.
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