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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 04, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : The New York Times
  
  By AZAM AHMEDJUNE 16, 2015
  
  
  Photo: A Haitian man sought legal residency in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after the government set a Wednesday deadline for worker registration. Credit Tatiana Fernandez/Associated Press
• Location : Mexico City, Mexico
• Website : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/world/americas/migrant-workers-in-dominican-republic-most-of-them-haitian-face-deportation.ht

Overview

• MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by the government that have cast a light on the country’s long-troubled relationship with its Haitian neighbors.
  
  Undocumented workers in the Dominican Republic had until Wednesday to register their presence in the country, in the hope of being allowed to stay.
  
  The government says nearly 240,000 migrant workers born outside the Dominican Republic have started the registration process. But there are an estimated 524,000 foreign-born migrant workers in the country — about 90 percent of whom are Haitian, according to a 2012 survey — leaving a huge population of migrants at risk of deportation.
  
  Human rights groups had hoped the government would delay the registration deadline, given the difficulties faced by many in producing documents and satisfying bureaucratic requirements. But there were no indications that the authorities would stall their plan to begin ejecting workers.
  
  
  “The signals are clear,” said Beneco Enecia, the director of Cedeso, a nonprofit group that works with migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent. “The Dominican government is setting up logistics, placing vehicles and personnel to start the process of repatriation.”
  
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