'While common practice, [Dominican President Luis] Abinader's new law has enabled 'mass evictions' of individuals and families who have been living in these communities for 20-plus years, overwhelmingly Haitians and Black Dominicans.'
Now, through Decree No. 668-22, police have a blanket license to harass and boot anyone they deem to be Haitian; meanwhile, military, immigration, municipal authorities, and even everyday citizens are empowered to assume the prerogatives of detaining, beating, or catching people they believe to be Haitian, regardless of whether they’re documented or not.
“If a person has a Black racial profile, they are already a candidate to receive the fury caused by those who have orders from above to attack immigrants,” Manuel de Jesus Dandre, a civil rights attorney and education activist, tells Somos through WhatsApp. “Protected by the decree, humble shacks or houses of certain value are razed and other assets stolen with impunity.” Dollis adds that the MUDHA headquarters was recently ambushed by police as well.
Since the onset of the 2020 pandemic, white immigrant families from Canada, Europe, and the U.S. have been able to take up refuge and residency at a soaring rate in the Dominican Republic. In areport published in September 2022, executive director of the Dominican Association of Tourism Real Estate Companies Michael Lugo shared that real estate tourism has been growing gradually as white foreigners find second homes in the country.
Abinader’s actions are so unjust, he warranted international condemnation for violating the country’s own law and the human rights of Haitians, including from the U.S. But it must be stated that the United States, which is itself guilty of extrajudicially murdering its own, has also contributed to antihaitianismo in the Dominican Republic. After the U.S.
Today’s relations between the neighboring countries is a poignant reminder of how cyclical history can be. Haitian and Dominican narratives have been speaking to each other since the inception. What started out as a single nation of chiefdoms, what its original inhabitants of Tainos called Ayiti or Bohio, ultimately became a blueprint for the colonial divide-and-conquer we see today.
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