Marie Matte Mayan 26, sleeps on the floor with her twins, Maudeline and Maudena Pierre an a shelter after being deported by Dominican Republic authorities, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled 244 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Marie Matte Mayan, Maudeline, Maudena Pierre
Mona Fleurisme 20, holds her 3-month-old son Rotelson as they wait at a shelter to be taken to their hometown together with other Haitians after being deported by Dominican Republic authorities, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled 244 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Dominican Republic Border Killings
Haitian deported from Dominican Republic wait to board a bus to be taken to their hometowns at a shelter in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled more than 200 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine L issaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Marie Matte Mayan, Maudeline, Maudena Pierre
A woman and her children wait at a shelter to be taken to their hometown together with other Haitians after being deported by Dominican Republic authorities, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled 244 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Dominican Republic Border Killings
Haitians sit in a bus as they are taken to their hometowns from a shelter after being deported by Dominican Republic authorities, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled 244 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Dominican Republic Border Killings
A child sleeps on the floor as Haitians deported by Dominican Republic authorities wait to be taken to their hometowns at a shelter in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled more than 200 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Dominican Republic Border Killings
A man holds his 3-day-old child as he prepares at a shelter to be taken to his hometown together with other Haitians after being deported by Dominican Republic authorities, in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 24, 2013. Dominican authorities expelled 244 Haitians after an elderly Dominican couple was slain in an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and an angry mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man, Rev. Antoine Lissaint of Haiti’s Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Organization said Sunday.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 100 additional people have been deported to Haiti from neighboring Dominican Republic after an elderly Dominican couple was killed, a spokesman for a Haitian migrant advocacy group said Monday.
The number of Haitians and people of Haitian descent who’ve been expelled has reached 354, said Josue Michel, a spokesman for the Group for Repatriates and Refugees. Authorities had reported at least 244 people expelled as of Sunday.
The expulsions follow violence that engulfed a town in the southwestern corner of the Dominican Republic. The couple was slain last week during an apparent burglary near the border between the two countries and a Dominican mob retaliated by killing a Haitian man.
Migrant advocates say many of the deported people went to a police station seeking refuge, and that some of them volunteered to leave the country because they feared being victims of mob violence. Others left because the Dominican authorities rounded them up in the streets, migrant advocates added.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic have had a long and volatile relationship as neighbors on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
The Dominican Republic was among the first countries to respond after the devastating 2010 earthquake in the Haitian capital, and has helped with reconstruction by securing contracts on major infrastructure projects since then. But relations between the two have soured since September when a Dominican court threatened to revoke citizenship for residents of the Dominican Republic of Haitian descent, which could affect 200,000 people.
The Dominican government announced last week that it has developed a plan to resolve the legal status of people who could lose their citizenship because of the ruling. Details are to be released once a decree is signed and takes effect in the coming days.
