Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
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I remember speaking to Haitian folks there about like, they had genuinely hoped that
for a little bit better from the Biden administration, which of course they didn't get.
A very common pathway is to Brazil to do underpaid construction work for the Rio Olympics and then finding yourself without work, without much of a chance at citizenship or permanency, deciding to come north.
That was a very common pathway at the time too.
So about 200,000 displaced Haitians are believed to have moved to the DR in the months after the earthquakes, according to the International Organization for Migration.
And after that flow of migrants to the DR and the rising tide of anti-Haitianism, which had been building for a very long time, in 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic
ruled that people born in the Dominican Republic to immigrant parents without a regularized migration status had never been entitled to Dominican citizenship.
This ruling is called la sentencia, the judgment.
What this essentially did was that if you do not have at least one parent who is a Dominican citizen, then you do not have Dominican citizenship.
In the U.S., we have Earthright Citizenship or Jus Soli, which means that if you're born on this land or inside the U.S., you are an American citizen.
This, of course, applies almost everywhere except certain colonies like American Samoa.
So essentially, in the Dominican Republic, if one of your parents was not Dominican, you did not have citizenship.
The thing about judicial decisions is that they typically only go forward in time.
But what was particularly evil about la sentencia was that it applied retroactively.
to 1929.
And I want listeners to sit with that for a second.
Even if it applied just going forward, it would be a horrible thing.
But going back nearly 100 years is just horrendous because what the ruling caused was a chain reaction that stripped entire families of their citizenship
Because if your grandparents weren't citizens, then neither was your dad.
If your mom wasn't a citizen then, then neither are you.
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