Dominican Republic Haitian Migrants

In this Oct. 8, 2012 photo, Haitian immigrants who work in the sugarcane fields, protest to demand their pension payments outside the National Congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thousands of Haitians toiling in the Dominican Republic are being brought into the legal daylight and winning long denied benefits and rights as part of a program sponsored by the Office of the U.N. Commissioner for Refugees. The program will help elderly workers who have lost out on decades of benefits because they didn’t have a passport and birth certificate to receive their pensions. The banner reads in Spanish: “Sugarcane workers demand, pension approved, pension paid.” (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz))