Leroy N. Soetoro
2024-12-11 02:26:13 UTC
https://www.latintimes.com/dominican-republic-deporting-haitians-trucks-
built-cages-immigration-crackdown-568593
https://d.latintimes.com/en/full/564601/haitian-migrants-
deported.webp?w=736&f=0eb7f036230bf997857ba7e08e1735ef
Trucks resembling livestock carriers fill the Elías Piña border crossing
between the Dominican Republic and Haiti every day. But rather than
cattle, the trucks are transporting Haitians, including pregnant women,
unaccompanied children, and individuals with no ties to the country. Since
October, more than 71,000 Haitians have been deported from the neighboring
country under a strict immigration policy that seeks to expel up to 10,000
people every week.
For Haitians fleeing gang violence, economic instability, and political
collapse, the Dominican Republic had been a fragile refuge given the
country's historical hostility. But deportees now also recount harrowing
raids and alleged abuses, as reported by the New York Times.
Dominican President Luis Abinader has defended the policy, citing
increasing pressure on public services. Roberto Álvarez, the Dominican
foreign minister, said births to Haitian mothers in public hospitals
surged to 40% of all deliveries in October, compared to 24% in 2019.
About 147,000 Haitian children are enrolled in Dominican schools, costing
the nation an estimated $430 million annually, according to Minister
Álvarez. He added that the international community has left the Dominican
Republic to handle Haiti's spiraling crisis alone.
Haiti remains in turmoil, with gang violence having claimed over 12,000
lives and displacing nearly 800,000 people since the assassination of
President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Close to 200 people were killed last
weekend in a gang-led massacre in Port-au-Prince, according to the United
Nations, and killings so far this year have already topped 5,000.
While Dominican authorities insist the measures respect human rights,
deportees and activists describe racial profiling, verbal harassment, and
violence. One 17-year-old deportee claimed he was shot in the leg by
immigration officers. "Why are all these massive abuses taking place?"
asked Laura d'Elsa of the International Organization for Migration, adding
that many deportees arrive injured.
Critics link the crackdown to the island's fraught history. Haiti's former
foreign minister Dominique Dupuy said deportations target individuals "by
the simple fact that they had Black skin," claiming some were not even
Haitian.
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built-cages-immigration-crackdown-568593
https://d.latintimes.com/en/full/564601/haitian-migrants-
deported.webp?w=736&f=0eb7f036230bf997857ba7e08e1735ef
Trucks resembling livestock carriers fill the Elías Piña border crossing
between the Dominican Republic and Haiti every day. But rather than
cattle, the trucks are transporting Haitians, including pregnant women,
unaccompanied children, and individuals with no ties to the country. Since
October, more than 71,000 Haitians have been deported from the neighboring
country under a strict immigration policy that seeks to expel up to 10,000
people every week.
For Haitians fleeing gang violence, economic instability, and political
collapse, the Dominican Republic had been a fragile refuge given the
country's historical hostility. But deportees now also recount harrowing
raids and alleged abuses, as reported by the New York Times.
Dominican President Luis Abinader has defended the policy, citing
increasing pressure on public services. Roberto Álvarez, the Dominican
foreign minister, said births to Haitian mothers in public hospitals
surged to 40% of all deliveries in October, compared to 24% in 2019.
About 147,000 Haitian children are enrolled in Dominican schools, costing
the nation an estimated $430 million annually, according to Minister
Álvarez. He added that the international community has left the Dominican
Republic to handle Haiti's spiraling crisis alone.
Haiti remains in turmoil, with gang violence having claimed over 12,000
lives and displacing nearly 800,000 people since the assassination of
President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Close to 200 people were killed last
weekend in a gang-led massacre in Port-au-Prince, according to the United
Nations, and killings so far this year have already topped 5,000.
While Dominican authorities insist the measures respect human rights,
deportees and activists describe racial profiling, verbal harassment, and
violence. One 17-year-old deportee claimed he was shot in the leg by
immigration officers. "Why are all these massive abuses taking place?"
asked Laura d'Elsa of the International Organization for Migration, adding
that many deportees arrive injured.
Critics link the crackdown to the island's fraught history. Haiti's former
foreign minister Dominique Dupuy said deportations target individuals "by
the simple fact that they had Black skin," claiming some were not even
Haitian.
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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.
The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.