Belder, Haiti – The recent 500 crowds landed in dust trucks and Haiti turned into a small difference in a border gate separating Haiti from the Dominican Republic.
He was the first deportation of that day, some were still hidden in work clothes and others were barefoot when he was standing in line for food, water and medical care in the Haitian border city of Belder before stopping his next move.
Under a brilling sunshine, immigrants mentioned that they were being abused by Dominican officials when President Louis Abander told him at least 10,000 migrants in October a week. The country was ordered to begin deportation under a tough new policy that criticized civil organizations.
“They broke my door at 4am in the Dominican Republic for two decades, said Odeline St. Floor, who worked as Mason in the Dominican Republic.” He was sleeping with his wife and 7 -year -old son.
The number of alleged human rights abuses is increasing, from raids to unauthorized homes to racial profiling mothers and unarmed minors, when officials have promoted exile in Haiti, with the Dominican Republic. Hespanola participates in the island.
Last year, more than a quarter million people were deported, and more than 31,200 in January alone.
“The situation has reached an important point,” said Rudy Joseph, a activist accused of ignoring the proper action of the officials during the arrests. “Every day, children are left in schools.”
‘I’ll wait for you on the other side’
On a recent afternoon, dozens of shopkeepers were standing on both sides of men, women and unprecedented children who marched a single file in Belder after being deported, their feet drowned in a sludge, trash trail. The urine smells from.
These men tried to sell them to the Dominican Republic for jeans, water, SIM cards and illegal visits: “Would you like to pass? I will wait for you on the other side,” he whispered in the crew.
Despite the crackdown, many people re -enter the Dominican Republic, which expose a broken system.
The second time was marked this afternoon when the 32 -year -old floor installer, Jimmy Millen, was deported. He was arrested in 2024 in the capital, Santo Domingo and in mid -January when authorities boarded a public bus and pointed to it.
He reminded him of saying that before asking for the documents.
He behind his wife and two children, who is 3 and 12 years old, and he does not know when he will see them again.
He was planning to travel to the Haiti capital, but like thousands of others, he fell into Belder, he would have to go through the gang tricyatry where the gunmen fired on public transport.
He said about Haiti, “There is no food, nothing, just not guilty,” where more than 5,600 people were reported killed last year, the majority by these groups that capital, Porto Controls 85 % of the Prince.
If Millen was to return to the Dominican Republic for the third time, dozens of smugglers are waiting.
Mac, a Haiti, who gave his first name to talk freely about smuggling, said it provides migrants across the border six times a week.
He receives $ 3 per person, and then offers $ 8 to the Dominican Border Guard: “If you pay them, they will let you go through it.”
He survived for almost three years in Sanato Domingo, until he was deported, installing the dried wall. He then joined a promoted smuggling operation and said that he did not intend to return to the capital until the crackdown was ease.
“Here, everyone knows me,” he said. “They don’t bother me.”
Young and lonely at the border
Military checkpoints close the road leading to the Dominican capital. Authorities boarded the buses on the board, put the head in the car windows and detained the suspected non -documentary migrants, but many people were already jumped and went further on the road again.
The arrival of Haitian immigrants and their illegal re -entering is something that bothers the Director of the Dominican migration, the Deputy Admiral Louis Rafael Lee Balster.
“The Dominican Republic … has claimed a lot of responsibility for the Haiti situation,” he said. “We are ready to provide help, but it is important that Haiti leaders order in their country to take care of their people.”
Dominican officials believe that Haitian immigrants have put more pressure on the country’s public services, with more than 80,000 new Haiti students enrolled in public schools in the last four years. Health officials say that the country is up to 70 % of the birth of women in the country, which will cost the government millions of dollars.
Bolster said he would deploy additional migrant officials across the country to deal with it as an increase in non -documentary immigrants as they were a burden and threat to his country.
When he denied the allegations of abuse, he acknowledged that officials were allowed to enter homes during “hot pursuit” and that the personnel were being re -trained “because our commitment to respect for human rights. Of course. “
The Dominican Republic does not deport me illegal minors, and these officials now separate women and children from men during exile, Bolister said.
But at the end of January, five youths were deported without their parents. Among them, 15 -year -old Jeewanson Morti, who said he was detained while working in the field.
In Beldir, Haiti officials were interviewed and four others who were trying to find their parents.
Gita Narayan, a UNICEF representative in Haiti, said that in the north, a 10 -year -old non -controversial girl was deported in the Hatian border city of Onemathi, in late January.
“These children are the weakest,” he said.
Last year, the Dominican Republic deported 1,099 non -controversial children. According to UNICEF, 786 of them were reunited with their family.
Joseet Jane, 45, was afraid of his 16 -year -old son, who was born in the Dominican Republic, when he was recently deported to Haiti alone.
Dralying a picture of this, she said that she reached the Dominican detention center where she was being kept but she was told that the government did not deport the non -minor minorities. He was deported anyway.
Jane paid the smuggler to bring her son back after the Dominican Republic Day.
“Children born here do not know where to go,” he said of those who were deported in Haiti.
Like Jane’s son, a significant number of deported people were born in the Dominican Republic, but there is a lack of birth certificate or other official documents to prove their legal status, workers have accused the government of working. Allow permits to expire or refuse to take action on their paperwork. The Dominican Republic automatically does not grant citizenship to every person born there.
Since there is widespread exile, Dominican employers are complaining in agriculture and construction industries.
Belter’s answer? Hob a Dominican workers.
‘Haiti is drowning’
At least one cellphone was recording when 25 -year -old Microsen German tried to avoid Dominican authorities later last year. He was running on the roof when an official grabbed him and pushed him. The woman recorded and thinking that she was dead and started crying.
“By the grace of God, I first fell on a lightning wire,” German said in a video tapped by a non -profit organization.
After his leg was injured and his cousin’s children held near him, Jermain said the authorities left the scene.
Workers accused the officer of trying to kill, but despite the mass screams, he says abuse remains intact.
Last year, a group of Dominican men, at their behest, became angry, treating and arresting their Haitian neighbors threw stones, bottles and other items at the authorities. A man tried to clear the migration officer before firing and all were scattered.
As widespread exile continues, President Abender warned that the situation in Haiti is a threat to the region and that it may be a “uncontrollable wave of migration” because he is struggling to fight groups in Haiti in Haiti Called for further cooperation for the support -backed mission.
“There is no dominant solution to the Haitian crisis,” he said. “Haiti is drowning, while an important part of the international community is passively watching the coast.”
