When Gallup-Hoy pollsters asked Dominicans about Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13, 55% said they had heard about the ruling, 35% said they had not heard of it, and only 0.7% said they had read the ruling. The poll was taken from 24-28 January, before the 30 January speech that brought the Constitutional Court ruling to the forefront when President Danilo Medina outlined its importance for the country and raised the issue of national sovereignty.
Six out of every 10 Dominicans do not think the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 is anti-Haitian. Likewise, 68% think that Haitians who came to work in the sugar industry since 1929, despite not having legal documentation, should be favored by an amnesty that would legalize their stay. Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 establishes a path for citizenship for undocumented residents.
Nevertheless, the poll also found that 83% of Dominican citizens believe that the government should ban more Haitian immigrants from entering the country.
The poll asked who was to blame for the high number of illegal Haitian immigrants. Those polled were divided. 42.6% said that the government was to blame for letting them enter, 28% said that the Haitians were to blame as they were fleeing poverty in their own country, and 27.6% say that local business is to blame for hiring them.
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