Claire's Brother
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Of course, this ruling also affected anyone who did legally still have citizenship but didn't have the documentation going back that far to prove it if the government came knocking.
So yeah, essentially, imagine if you had to prove that your great-grandparents were citizens in 1929.
I mean, I don't think I personally would have that documentation for my great-grandparents.
Especially living in the lower 48 in the U.S., it's just more likely that one might have documentation of one's great-grandparents than living in parts of the D.R.,
But yeah, essentially for me, it would be incredibly hard to have that documentation for my great-grandparents.
I couldn't imagine someone who has moved throughout their lives inside of the Dominican Republic to also have that documentation.
And then there's also the fact that because of...
Of the anti-Haitianism that was there, a lot of people who did or were supposed to legally still have citizenship were rolled up.
In the people whose citizenship this law took away.
In total, the decision impacted about 245,000 Dominicans, of which 211,000 were Dominicans of Haitian descent, according to the Center for Migration Studies.
I, of course, say Dominicans because they were legally speaking Dominicans at the time that the sentencia took place, but now they have been stripped of that citizenship.
The Dominican government tried to backtrack this decision just a year later after a lot of international criticism and provide a path to the stateless, but the damage was done.
In 2023, it's estimated that as many as 130,000 people remain stateless per CMS.
There is no law that provides a path to citizenship for the children of the stateless.
So even after this 2014 law that tried to make people back into citizens or provide a pathway to citizenship,
If you have a child, that child was not going to have citizenship.
Because so many people were affected by it.
And a lot of the slowness of the government, the ways that government doesn't work, you have this wave of denationalizations.
And because of a lot of the problems of the government, some people who should have had that pathway to citizenship provided to them still don't have it.
Right.
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