Haiti Place Deportation Cruelty Is The Last Thing The Dominican Republic's Cruel Image Needs

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  • NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
  • NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 04, 2015
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  • Category : General News
  • Description : By TIM PADGETT • JUL 30, 2015

    Photo: A Haitian-Dominican mother and her young children wait in a Haitian border village this summer after being deported from the Dominican Republic.
    REBECCA BLACKWELL AP VIA MIAMI HERALD
  • Location : Miami, FL, United States
  • Website : http://wlrn.org/post/deportation-cruelty-last-thing-dominican-republics-cruel-image-needs

Overview

  • OPINION

    You don’t need to be a detective to know that the Dominican Republic has already begun deporting Haitian-Dominicans.

    International media report this week that tent cities are sprouting up at towns like Anse-à-Pitres on Haiti’s side of its border with the D.R. This morning I spoke by phone with Mia Pean, a Haitian-American relief worker who lives near Anse-à-Pitres. Her organization just received a group of Haitian-Dominican youths who say they were deported from the D.R. a few days ago – even though they claim they were born there.

    “They don’t speak Creole,” Pean told me, referring to Haiti’s predominant language. “They speak only Spanish,” the D.R.’s official tongue.

    None of this is surprising if you’ve followed the Haitian-Dominican crisis – which was sparked two years ago when the Dominican Supreme Court revoked the citizenship and residency of anyone born in the D.R. after 1929 if their parents were not Dominican.