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Poverty May 23, 2019 | 9:29 am

No papers mean no school, no job for 70,000 youngsters of Haitian descent

Santo Domingo.- The Integral Ethnic Foundation (FEI) and the Haitian International League (Lihaiti) on Thurs. said that more than 70,000 young people, children of Haitian descent, can’t go to school or get a job for lack of an identity document. In a press conference FEI executives blamed the Central Electoral Board and the Immigration Directorate for the legal limbo in which those young peop

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