By Jorge Pineda SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic has resumed the detention of people deemed to be illegal migrants after the expiration of a deadline for undocumented foreigners to apply for temporary residence. Officials in the Dominican Republic have grown concerned by an influx of people from neighboring Haiti and a 2013 Dominican court ruling stripped citizenship from children born to undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of which are Haitian. To help implement the ruling while responding to an international outcry, the Dominican Congress passed a law allowing some migrants to apply for residency before a June 17 deadline.
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August 15th, 2015
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