Dominican Migration Crisis
In 2013 the Dominican Supreme Court stripped the majority of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic of their citizenship. Thousands of people living in the DR instantly lost their legal status because they were the children of undocumented immigrants. In the U.S. everyone born in the U.S. no matter who their parents are, is a United States citizen. The ruling applied to anyone born to undocumented immigrants in the country since 1929, people who had lived their whole lives in the Dominican Republic were suddenly left without a country. A mass deportation soon followed, taking thousands of people away from their homes and dropping them off at the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.