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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 27, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : BBC News
  2 July 2015
  From the section Latin America & Caribbean
  
  Photo: Haitian-born immigrants encountered long delays during the registration process
• Location : Dominican Republic
• Website : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33358325

Overview

• The Dominican Republic says it will cooperate with an Organization of American States (OAS) inquiry into its migration policies.
  
  The OAS is sending a team to Santo Domingo after thousands of migrants left for Haiti in recent weeks.
  
  The Dominican authorities say they left voluntarily after a registration programme for undocumented migrants expired.
  But Haitian officials have accused the authorities of using force.
  
  Speaking after the OAS announcement, Interior Minister Ramon Fadul said: "We have nothing to hide because what we are doing is applying our laws on migration as every country in the world does and to do this we have done what was needed."
  
  But there have been international concerns about the number of Haitians being sent across the border, estimated to be some 17,000. Many of them are Dominicans of Haitian descent.
  
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