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Why Do People Naturalize The Haitians?

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Why Do People Naturalize The Haitians?
The Haitians that chose to remain in the Dominican Republic, now undocumented and stateless, are unable to receive governmental benefits and thus require the United Nation to take action in order to protect their natural rights. People naturalized in a state are generally known as citizen however the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court have voided terms and now renders a lot of Haitians descents, living in DR, stateless. Statelessness is an issue since it strips people nationality and leaves them undocumented and unrecorded making them prone to getting their basic right violated. In order for the Haitians to have their basic rights protected the United Nations must step in and intervene with what the DRCC is doing. Without a state the Haitians …show more content…
Haitians descents with citizenship were stripped off their citizenship and were thus were mistreated with persecution by the Dominican Republic. Haitians born or naturalize by law were demeanor by the DRCC since the Haitians had already fulfilled the requirements for them to be a citizen. It could be argued that the DRCC commissioned this decision since they had feared that what happened to the Tainos, the natives that originally inhabited DR, could potentially be repeated and now try to prevent any intervention from a foreign country to assimilate its culture. Without a citizenship a person is stateless this therefore means that Haitians in DR are currently stateless.

With over 200,000 Haitian descendants denaturalized and only around 24,000 retaining their citizenship there are still over half Haitians in DR that currently stateless. Being stateless is an issue notably in cases where a family is poor and lives in horrible conditions because being part of the state allow people to be helped due to the governmental help. Not only are they unable to receive help with government but finding jobs are also harder since the economy is unable to work in the economy legally. This could produce a bad outcome and could be related with the US felony voting laws, once a felon is convicted and charged in the US they are stripped off their voting right and lose one of their basic rights as an American. This issue in this is how

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