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A man eats after a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 2, 2024.  Clarens Saffron/Agence France-Presse

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17279153107371727915307357.jpeg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">A man eats after a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 2, 2024.  <em>Clarens Saffron/Agence France-Presse</em><em></em></span></span></span></div><p>SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The Dominican Republic unveiled a plan Wednesday to start expelling 10,000 undocumented Haitians a week as part of a crackdown on migration from its troubled neighbor.</p><p>&quot;This operation aims to reduce the excessive migrant populations detected in Dominican communities,&quot; presidential spokesman Homero Figueroa said, adding the expulsions would start &quot;immediately&quot; and be done &quot;according to strict protocols that ensure respect for human rights.&quot;</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gxFnL__irk8?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The government said it took the decision in light of the international community&#x27;s &quot;slowness&quot; in restoring stability in Haiti, large parts of which have been overrun by criminal gangs.</p><p>After many months of delay, a UN-approved force led by Kenya has been sent to Haiti to try to restore order.</p><p>&quot;We warned at the United Nations that either it and all the countries that had committed themselves (to helping Haiti) act responsibly in Haiti, or we will,&quot; President Luis Abinader said.</p><p>Since coming to power in 2020, Abinader has taken a tough line on migration from destitute and violence-plagued Haiti.</p><p>He built a 164-kilometer (102-mile) concrete wall between the two countries and promised to extend it when he was handily re-elected in May for a second term.</p><p>His government has also dramatically ratcheted up deportations, expelling 250,000 undocumented Haitians in 2023 alone.</p><p>The plan announced Wednesday would more than double that number in a year -- more than the 495,815 Haitians living in Dominican Republic, according to official statistics.</p><p>Figueroa said the government had drawn up a plan to identify and dismantle networks engaged in human trafficking from Haiti.</p><p>The government has also said it would step up drone and camera surveillance of the border.</p><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="2983151"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script></div><div><strong>- Fleeing Haiti&#x27;s collapse -</strong></div><p>Dominican Republic, which covers two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola and is mainly Spanish-speaking, has a history of fractious relations with its much poorer neighbor, where French and Creole are spoken.</p><p>Haitians have for decades sought to carve out a better life in the Dominican Republic, a Caribbean tourism hotspot with one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America.</p><p>The collapse of Haiti&#x27;s economy and its descent into gang warfare followed a devastating earthquake in 2010, with each crisis exacerbating the flow of Haitians across the border.</p><p>The UN human rights office says more than 3,600 people have been killed this year in gang violence in Haiti.</p><p>More than 700,000 people have been displaced from their homes, over half of them children, the UN&#x27;s International Organization for Migration said Wednesday in Geneva.</p><p>During the presidential campaign, both Abinader and his main rival rejected pressure from the international community for the country to allow in more people fleeing Haiti&#x27;s collapse.</p><p>Haitian communities in the Dominican Republic report widespread discrimination and racism, including from the state and security services.</p><p>ba/jt/cb/mlr/aha</p><div><br/></div><p>© Agence France-Presse</p>

<p>The Dominican Republic unveiled a plan Wednesday to start expelling 10,000 undocumented Haitians a week as part of a crackdown on migration from its troubled neighbor.</p>

The Dominican Republic unveiled a plan Wednesday to start expelling 10,000 undocumented Haitians a week as part of a crackdown on migration from its troubled neighbor.

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Dominican Republic to expel 10,000 Haitians a week

Agence France-Presse

Published Oct 03, 2024 08:29 AM PHT

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