You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here – IOTW Report

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

Fusion– Starting tomorrow, the government of the Dominican Republic plans to follow through on its promise to “repatriate” potentially hundreds of thousands of residents with Haitian heritage, after a controversial court ruling from 2013 retroactively stripped them of Dominican citizenship unless they had at least one parent with “Dominican blood.” Legally, the law applies to any foreigner who arrived in the country after 1929. But practically, it overwhelmingly affects the descendants of people who came from the DR’s struggling neighbor, Haiti. more

4 Comments on You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

  1. With all the liberal/progressives groups protesting this policy change what has been lost in the noise has been the concept that a countries government is responsible for protecting it’s own people first. The DR sounds like they are doing this but you can expect international condemnation for them enacting a reasonable law as well as creating a measure that will grant citizenship to those who came before 2011 as long as they can prove who they are. I’ll bet Obama and the rest of the lib/prog cabal is scared spitless that this will actually work.

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