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Caribbean & Central America - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sticking to its guns on migration policy
Despite all the negative attention and resultant diplomatic tensions with its neighbours, the Dominican government led by President Danilo Medina continues to implement its controversial migration policy. The international pressure for the Dominican authorities not to resort to the summary mass deportation of Haitian migrants and their Dominican-born children remains. But not even a visit by the new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) to the country (see sidebar) after the OAS’s offer to mediate in the dispute was rebuffed by the Medina government [RC-15-08] has deterred the Dominican authorities.
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