2005News

Dominicans protest treatment in Puerto Rico

Dominicans arriving at the Luis Munoz Marin airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are receiving “arrogant and patronizing” treatment from immigration inspectors, according to the Dominican Human Rights Committee and the Dominican Worker’s Unity Movement, which picketed the immigration building at the San Patricio Plaza Shopping Center yesterday, according to El Caribe. Rafael Fernandez stated that the inspectors’ behavior towards legal resident Dominican and other Latin American nationalities is arrogant, patronizing, and their manner is aggressive towards people who are fellow citizens. He claimed that the immigration officers treat them as “criminals or terrorists” and that they are creating a bad image of the United States from Puerto Rico.