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Last week, FIU Law Professor Ediberto Román, along with more than 100 law professors from across the nation, wrote an impassioned letter to President Barack Obama urging him to take action to end the human rights crisis currently going on in the Dominican Republic.

In a detailed legal analysis, the joint letter provided the government the legal means to address the issue. In a powerful critique Roman called for, “a simple public statement could affect a country in human rights abuses, and may lead that land to the negotiation table. Further, [these legal experts asked the President to] call upon Secretary Kerry to convene a high-level working group to address this issue, to convene a summit to address the matter, and consider Temporary Protected Status for those left stateless by these horrific governmental actions.”

Read the letter to President Obama here.

Photo by Amnesty International.