Editing Rafael Trujillo (section)

==Immigration==
Trujillo was known for his open-door policy, accepting [[Expulsions and exoduses of Jews|Jewish refugees]] from Europe, [[Japanese settlement in the Dominican Republic|Japanese migration]] during the 1930s, and exiles from Spain following [[Spanish Civil War|its civil war]]. At the 1938 [[Évian Conference]] the Dominican Republic was the only country willing to accept many Jews and offered to accept up to 100,000 refugees on generous terms.<ref name="Crassweller pp. 199-200">{{harvp|Crassweller|1966|pp=199–200}}</ref> In 1940 an agreement was signed and Trujillo donated {{convert|26000|acre|km2}} of his properties for settlements. The first settlers arrived in May 1940; eventually, some 800 settlers came to [[Sosúa]] and most moved later on to the United States.<ref name="Crassweller pp. 199-200"/>

Refugees from Europe broadened the Dominican Republic's tax base and added more whites to the predominantly mixed-race nation. Trujillo's government favored [[White people|white]] refugees over others while Dominican troops expelled illegal immigrants, resulting in the 1937 [[Parsley Massacre]] of Haitian migrants.