Just for the record, no one is implying most Haitians are bad people or even have bad will. I think everyone knows that they are not leaving a place going through its best time. All anyone has to do is watch the news, the situation in Haiti is shown every week and it isn’t pretty. It isn’t an issue of Haitian migration per se, since Haitian migration into the DR has been occurring since colonial times when the owners were Spain and France.
Unlike in those times, now it’s of proportion. Too many people at once.
This was published today of what happen near a Dominican town near Dajabón.
Quite frankly, too many people at once. If that was a once in a blue moon occurrence it would not be a big deal since it has been happening for centuries.
In colonial times it was the slaves of the French escaping from the plantations they were assigned to near the border to freedom in the Spanish side. For a long time, anyone that entered on their own and as slaves were free from the moment they first stepped on Spanish land. That meant they couldn’t be subjected into slavery in the Spanish land, they couldn’t be returned to their previous owners, and they became subjects of the King of Spain, which meant if in this case the French enter Spanish land and captured their former slaves and took them back to their side, it was a grievance against Spain that would result in a military action to get them back. Since this applied to the entire Spanish Empire, many slaves from English owned Georgia would escape to Spanish owned Florida for the same reason. In St Augustine the Spanish authorities created the Batallón de los Morenos within the Spanish army which was nothing more than the collection of these runaway slaves from Georgia.
Anyway, even then the flow of Haitians into the DR wasn’t as great as now and didn’t overwhelmed the Dominican society. To make matters worse, Haiti itself is as big as the DR population wise without considering Haitians already form a sizable percentage of the population of the DR. By any account, there are more Haitians than Dominicans on the island.
Yes it is.
No it isn’t.
Because reality isn’t like your conspiracy theory. Simply suggesting the Dominican government “isn’t seeking solutions to this problem” is a testament to that and those words can only come from someone that is clueless of what is being done. You seem to not want to accept the sheer size of the problem and that is precisely what it is about. Due to not accepting that leads you to believe in all the other things which are flawed, to say the least.
