Deadline: February 1, 2025
On October 2, 2024, President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic announced the immediate implementation of a plan to deport up to 10,000 migrants per week.
This measure raises significant concerns about the treatment of Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, stateless individuals, and Black people in the Dominican Republic.
This announcement comes despite the security and humanitarian crisis in Haiti that puts many lives at risk.
The announced increase of deportations poses a serious risk of racial profiling, collective expulsions, and other human rights violations.
The measure risks resulting in preventing individualized assessments of each person's protection needs, including those in need of protection, pregnant women, children, stateless individuals, and asylum seekers.
These actions not only affect Haitians but also endanger Dominicans of Haitian descent and Black individuals, who face the possibility of their national origin, race, skin color, or statelessness being associated with irregular migration status due to constant racial profiling and other forms of racial discrimination.
This dynamic has created a climate of fear and risk in their communities, with the constant uncertainty of being arbitrarily detained and deported. This impedes and inhibits the exercise of various rights, including access to health care, education, employment, and the very defense of human rights.
Send an email to President Luis Abinader asking him to end racist deportations of Haitians.