(ICCPR), the Dominican Republic is obligated to respect the right of individuals to enter and remain in their own country, which the Human Rights Committee has found includes “stateless persons arbitrarily deprived of the right to acquire the nationality of the country of such residence.”81 As such, these deportations are in clear violation of the Dominican Republic’s international human rights obligations. 30. Those stateless or at risk of statelessness include people in Group A who have not yet received their nationality documents, those in Group B both waiting to access the naturalization process to regain their Dominican nationality and those eligible to participate in the registration process but unable to do so, those deported or facing deportation, and those born in the Dominican Republic between April 18, 2007 and June 26, 2010.82 Furthermore, the children of parents in both Groups A and B are considered stateless due to the fact that the Dominican government does not recognize the nationality or legal residence status of their parents. 31. However, even the limited protections offered by Law 169-14 have been subject to efforts to repeal the law and have it declared unconstitutional.83 These efforts have largely been led by conservative and nationalist groups, who have particularly targeted Articles 1, 2, and 8 of the law, which respectively describe its purpose, the alleged plan for transcription and regularization of status for those in Group A, and the possibility for naturalization of those in Group B after the required waiting period.84 These efforts serve to underscore the law’s fragility, as it does not guarantee the right to a nationality in a permanent manner for those affected by TC/0168/13, but rather leaves its implementation up to the discretion of different national actors, many of whom have openly demonstrated hostility to this segment of the population. 32. TC/0168/13, Law 169-14, and the resulting cases of statelessness are not isolated events; rather, they are the consequences of a long legacy of systematic discrimination directed towards Dominicans of Haitian descent over multiple decades which have left them vulnerable to human rights abuses. The IACHR declared that “all Dominicans of Haitian descent, or those perceived as such, are suffering from a situation of structural discrimination, in all regards and all levels, which deprives it of the enjoyment and exercise of its human rights.”85 The IACHR also noted that it does not receive complaints or information on foreigners of non-Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic facing barriers in recognition of their nationality, access to the Civil Registry, or obtaining their identity documents,86 which serves to further underscore the discrimination towards the population of Haitian descent. B. Additional human rights violations resulting from the denial of the right to a nationality 81 UN Human Rights Committee, CCPR General Comment No. 27: Article 12 (Freedom of Movement), (2 November 1999), CCPR/C/21/Rev. 1/Add. 9. 82 Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the Dominican Republic. Paragraph 25. 83 Menez, Wanda. Cuatro acciones buscan nulidad de la Ley 169-14. Listín Diario. 10 de abril de 2018. https://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2018/04/10/509910/cuatro-acciones-buscan-nulidad-de-la-ley-169-14. 84 El Congreso Nacional en Nombre de la República. Ley No. 169-14, art. 1, 2 y 8. 85 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Denationalization and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic. IACHR: Dominican Republic. http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/multimedia/2016/DominicanRepublic/dominican-republic.html. 86 Id. 13