Please stop comparing the Dominican's entering PR in small, manageable number's. With the current massive Haitian presence. Border Guards be damned.
The Dominican's entering PR are not overwhelming the infrastructure, they are not pooping in the streets and throwing fecal material on the roof's of people's homes. There are not bands of Dominican children begging in the street's of San Juan, Mayaguez or Ponce and aggressively pounding on your window, kicking the door of your car and running away and giving you the finger if you dare to step out of your vehicle. There are no Dominican women sitting down on the corner of your street with two kids beside her begging with one sucking on her teat. So the comparison is not fair. It is flawed, flawed, flawed.
Haitian's have arrived in the hundreds of thousands to DR, Dominican's in PR maybe a 20 here, 30 there and they keep a low, low profile so cease comparing us, cuz it ain't the same. Stop making Dominican's seem like the bad guy's. We are not, the world has ignored Haiti and we Dominican's have given as much as we can, if we could we would give more. In the meantime, the world pounds it's chest in lamentation as thousands die of cholera.
You all know how giving Dominican's are, why undermine our culture by breaking our law's and harboring illegal's? You all want to be Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King, but the fight to help Haiti, must be fought in Haiti, not in the street's of the DR. No matter how closeby we are.
When European's or North American's look at us they say/ask, what's the difference, they're all black?!! Well we see the difference and want/demand that you respect that.
I wasn't going to post, but dang I'm glad them Cibaenos finally had the cojones to do something.
Plus Balaguer, Pedro Mir, Bosch, Hostos all had a Puerto Rican connection and they we're welcomed in the DR so we are Paises hermanos'. Just because it, PR is a conquered occupied territory by the USA doesn't mean we are no longer connected. We also have a fraternal connection with Haiti (Ulises Heaureaux, Pena Gomez, Juan Pierre) all Dominican's with a Haitian background and they went far. Haitian's have always come to DR and they have been accepted as compatriot's and intergrated well. Just not in these numbers.
Sak Pase!