"Illegal People"

Over the past decade, the Dominican government has deported hundreds of thousands of Haitians to Haiti, as well as an unknown number of Dominicans of Haitian descent. On several occasions, most recently in November 1999, the Dominican authorities have conducted mass expulsions of Haitians andDominico-Haitians, rounding up thousands of people in a period of weeks or months and forcibly expelling them from the country.