Dominican-American author Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008, has come under fire from the Dominican consul in New York for criticizing the government’s immigration policies. Consul general Eduardo Selman described Diaz as “anti Dominican” and stripped him of an Order of Merit medal.
Dominican-born Diaz has had a long history of protesting the removal of undocumented Haitian migrants from the DR, calling it a violation of human rights and country’s own laws.
In June 2015, Diaz was at an event in Miami protesting the Dominican Republic’s efforts to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrant workers, calling the situation “a state of terror,” and reportedly met with US legislators at the US Congress last week to push for a resolution condemning the Dominican Republic’s policies.
Selman revoked the Order of Merit award given to Diaz in 2009 stating that there had been no violations of human rights in the Dominican Republic.
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