Some 'stateless' Haitians gain a legal foothold  1/16/2013 10:45
AM By Associated Press  SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic
(AP) — Julien Henrique spent 50 years toiling in the sugar cane
fields of the Dominican Republic and 10 more trying to collect a
meager monthly pension after he left the company.  Born in
neighboring Haiti, Henrique never received a birth certificate
before crossing the Dominican border as a young man, when
passports were unnecessary for those willing to cut cane under
the punishing sun. By the time he left the fields, he still
didn't have official documents, which meant he couldn't prove
his identity and receive benefits he had worked for all his
life.  "You come from Haiti, you've got nothing," the 92-year-
old Henrique said, leaning on a stick in this sugar workers
community in the eastern Dominican Republic.  Thousands of
Haitians toiling in the Dominican Republic live in a similar
limbo, enduring not just legal non-existence but mounting
hostility toward migrants from the far p