{"id":4263,"date":"2015-11-19T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:34:38","slug":"haitian-dominican-refugees-forced-out-of-dominican-republic-flood-into-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/haitian-dominican-refugees-forced-out-of-dominican-republic-flood-into-haiti","title":{"rendered":"Haitian-Dominican Refugees Forced Out of Dominican Republic Flood into Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Around half a million Dominicans of Haitian descent are facing deportation in the Dominican Republic.<\/h2>\n<p>Two years ago a court decision stripped Dominicans born to Haitian migrants of their citizenship, retroactively applied to anyone born after 1929. This ruling left tens of thousands of Dominican-born people of Haitian descent stateless, and facing being forced to \u2018return\u2019 to a country where many had never even visited and where they have no family.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Government has since passed a law allowing people born to undocumented foreign parents to request residency permits as foreigners, and later to apply for naturalization. So far only a fraction of those who have applied have actually received permits, with the majority of applicants not meeting all of the requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have voluntarily left, amid threats of eventual deportation. With nowhere to go, many are settling in squalid camps in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>ADRA Haiti has begun implementing a response to the growing crisis. They have distributed food kits, designed to feed an entire family for two weeks, water purification units and hygiene kits to 115 families.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around half a million Dominicans of Haitian descent are facing deportation in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[910,590,609,930,1052],"tags":[1079,1173,873,355],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dominican-republic","category-emergency","category-food-assistance","category-haiti","category-inter-america","tag-crisis","tag-food-distribution","tag-justice-compassion-love","tag-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46138,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/46138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}