Workers from Haiti’s health ministry take the temperatures of returning migrants on the Ouanaminthe-Dajabón border in northeast Haiti. Thousands of…
Prime Minister announces actions for Haitians Expelled From the Dominican Republic
Dominican authorities have pushed more than a thousand Haitians at the Haiti-Dominican Republic border in recent days. 1,400 people have…
Haiti Border Crisis Grows As Dominican Republic Expels ‘Migrants’
Every morning, Gustavo Adolfo wakes up in a migrant shelter in Haiti, treks across a field of burnt brush where men make charcoal, and crosses a river into the Dominican Republic, a country he left in fear three months ago.
With a machete strapped to his waist, Adolfo is joined by others each day in a desperate effort to make a living. They cross the border into the wealthier Dominican Republic under constant threat of arrest or expulsion.
“I can make 200 pesos ($4.50) a day working in the fields there,” said the middle-aged Haitian as he swatted away a swarm of mosquitoes.
With a machete strapped to his waist, Adolfo is joined by others each day in a desperate effort to make a living. They cross the border into the wealthier Dominican Republic under constant threat of arrest or expulsion.
CARICOM Wants More International Support To End Forced Deportation Of Haitians
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — The international community is being urged to have a greater involvement in the matter involving the…
More Than A Dozen Haitian Organizations March Against D.R. Expulsions
By Carlotta Mohamed Nearly 200 people marched on Friday, Aug. 14 to protest the expulsion of Dominico-Haitians from the Dominican…
Hundreds Of Ex-Peace Corps Volunteers Write Open Letter To State Department Demanding U.S. Suspend Assistance To D.R.
By Vania Andre
Nearly 600 former Peace Corps volunteers wrote an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday urging the State Department to suspend foreign aid to the Dominican Republic, in light of their controversial immigration policy, which affects thousands of Dominico-Haitians.
“Given the Dominican government’s disregard for international law with respect to the status of its citizens of Haitian descent; the violent track record of Dominican security forces receiving funding and training from the United States; and the Dominican Armed Forces’ readiness to execute a potentially massive campaign of rights-violating expulsions, we ask that the United States suspend its military aid to the Dominican government,” the 560 returned Peace Corps volunteers and three country directors, wrote in the letter. They have all at one point volunteered in the Dominican Republic.
OAS Offers Asistance In Haiti, Dominican Immigration Dispute
WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) — The Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday offered to facilitate negotiations between Haiti and…
Haitian Diaspora to March Against Expulsion of Dominico-Haitians
By Carlotta Mohamed
The Haitian American Caucus (HAC), along with members of the Coalition For Human Rights in the Dominican Republic (CHRDR), will march on Friday, Aug. 14, to demonstrate the injustice of mass expulsions of Dominico-Haitians from the Dominican Republic.
“I am personally not satisfied with the response from the United States,” said Jennings Louis, who organized the march. “I don’t feel like things are moving fast enough in terms of addressing the issue overall on a wide scale.”
Dominicans Reject OAS Offer To Organize Meeting With Haiti
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Dominican Republic on Wednesday rejected an offer by the Organization of American States to organize talks…
U.S. Presidential Candidate Comments on Dominican Deportation Crisis
By Carlotta Mohamed
Former Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley, called for the United States government to speak up against the deportations of Haitian migrants and Dominico-Haitians from the Dominican Republic.
In national radio interviews with Haitian radio personalities Ricot Dupuy and Elizabeth Guerin over the past week, the U.S. presidential candidate emphasized the urgency of the crisis saying it is an “inhumane displacement of families and communities alike.”