Not sure if this has been posted and if this is the best place to put it but the NY Times wrote a piece on the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos having similar issues with Haitian migration. I feel very bad about the situation in Haiti and understand 100% their reasons for fleeing legally or not but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't glad that there were other countries following similar paths as the DR because it doesn't single us out as much and perhaps people around the world would start to realize that this is a major issue and not it's not just that the DR is being unjust/xenophobic, racist, etc. The funny thing is that these countries are not being called racist because they are predominantly black as well so that argument doesn't make as much sense as in DR--they are just being called xenophobic. It's very easy to just call the DR racist when there is so much more to the massive Haitian migration that makes this a sensitive issue. It also bugs me when people assume that because the US laws are: if you are born there, you are a US American--the DR and nearby islands should do the same. The DR is a different country with a different geographic and social reality than the US.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/w...up-as-bahamas-tightens-immigration-rules.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/w...up-as-bahamas-tightens-immigration-rules.html