The Dominican Republic has suspended issuing visas to Haitian nationals and might fully close all borders between the two countries after a recent excavation of a canal in the Massacre River on ...

The Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 Haitians in 2024, the country’s Immigration Directorate said Wednesday. In the last three months of the year alone, over 94,000 people were ...

The Dominican Republic says it plans to expel as many as 10,000 Haitian migrants per week, despite a longstanding call from ...

Thousands of Haitian migrant workers cross the border to the Dominican Republic each day, in the hopes of working their way out of extreme poverty and homelessness. After five years of aid to ...

Some have made it to the U.S., but the lion’s share has settled in the neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the ...

"There is no life of stability in the Dominican Republic for Haitian migrants," said Alcimé of Jesuit Refugee Services in Ouanaminthe. And life at the border is uncertain, too, since there is no ...

While the situation is more common with recent Haitian migrant arrivals, the lack of legal documentation also affects hundreds of thousands of persons who have lived in the Dominican Republic all ...