Anse-a-Pitres Report: Expulsions of Dominicans and Haitians

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Anse-a-Pitres Report: Expulsions of Dominicans and Haitians

For 18 months in 2014 and 2015, the Dominican Republic (DR) implemented the Regularization Plan for Foreigners (PNRE), which ended in mid-2015. Many undocumented Haitian immigrants could not access the Plan for various reasons and were encouraged by Dominican authorities to return to the neighboring country or were officially deported beginning in August 2015. At the same time, people born in the DR of Haitian descent were made more vulnerable because they could not access documents proving their Dominican nationality after having been born in the DR before 2010. The testimony of a Dominican mother of Haitian descent born in the DR who lacks identity documents explains the hardships she faces in a camp on the Haitian side in Anse-a-Pitres after being forced to cross the border.