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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Nov 20, 2015
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• Category : General News
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  By Carolina JiménezPublished November 20, 2015Fox News Latino
• Website : http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/11/20/opinion-legion-ghosts-haitian-descent-striving-to-survive-in-dominican-repu

Overview

• A straight-A student rejected from high school, a promising baseball player unable to pursue a successful career, a seriously ill woman prevented from seeing a doctor, a human rights activist virtually imprisoned in his own country.
  
  The thing they all have in common is what they do not have: a small piece of paper with their identification data printed on it.
  
  The multi-colored card may be small, but it makes the difference between poverty and marginalization and a secure job, access to medical facilities, a school place and a chance in life. It is a card that has split a country into a thousand pieces. One that now threatens to turn tens of thousands of people into virtual ‘ghosts,’ without a country to call home.
  
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