FL S1792

Condemns a 2013 Dominican Republic Constitutional Court decision that stripped citizenship from more than 200,000 Dominicans born after 1929 to parents not of Dominican ancestry, rendering them stateless

Urges the Dominican Republic to overturn the 2013 ruling, halt all impending deportations, comply with Inter-American Court of Human Rights decisions, and implement an effective regularization process with independent monitoring

Criticizes the Obama Administration's silence on the issue, calling it "shameful" given the human rights implications and U.S. obligation to lead on such matters

References historical context including the 1937 Parsley Massacre that killed thousands of Haitians and compares the current situation to the 1930s Nuremberg Laws that stripped rights from German Jews

Warns that mass deportations would destabilize Haiti, which was still recovering from a 2010 earthquake that killed over 100,000 people and left 85,000 homeless