 The Dominican Republic is a nation that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.An estimated 1,000,000 Haitians live and work in the Dominican Republic, which has a total population of about ten million.The percentage of Haitians that have illegally immigrated to the Dominican Republic is not accurately known, and "many Dominicans have come to resent the influx of lower-paid workers from across the border and have sought to make their country less hospitable to noncitizens."