FIRST ®- A Jamaican Magazine | Peter Dean Rickards » citizenship http://www.first-magazine.net A Jamaican Magazine Fri, 14 May 2010 13:10:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Dominican Republic excludes Haitian kids from citizenship http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/05/dominican-republic-excludes-haitian-kids-from-citizenship/ http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/05/dominican-republic-excludes-haitian-kids-from-citizenship/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 03:31:00 +0000 First http://www.first-magazine.net/2008/05/24/dominican-republic-excludes-haitian-kids-from-citizenship/ 782px-map_of_hispaniola.JPG

Ángel Luis Joseph could be in the United States playing major leagues baseball but like other Haitian children, even those born in the Dominican Republic, the government of that country is refusing them citizenship, striking out the 17 year old’s dream for the time being.

Read more: The New York Times

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