In a 2013 ruling, the Dominican Republic RETROACTIVELY stripped citizenship from over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent. This ruling created the LARGEST POPULATION OF STATELESS PEOPLE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE and left anyone of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic open to persecution and mass forced removals. Since June 17th, The U.S., the DR's #1 trade partner, has turned a blind eye to this human rights crisis- even as over 42,000 people now live in squalid tent camps alongs the Haitian border after being forced to flee their homes, lives, and families in the DR. We urge the Administration to leverage its economic & political power to insist that the DR restores full citizenships to Dominicans-Haitians and allow real due process for Haitian migrants to become regularized.
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