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If You Are Black, Get Out: The Crisis of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic

By November 6, 2013No Comments

By Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos

The decision by the high court in the Dominican Republic to declare Dominicans who may have Haitian ancestry “not citizens” with a start date of birth of 1929 is simply appalling.

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