What does the Dominican Republic’s crackdown on Haitian refugees and migrants reveal concerning the story of two neighbours?
The Dominican Republic has deported practically 150,000 folks it claims are of Haitian descent since October 2024. A lot of them are unaccompanied minors or folks born within the Dominican Republic however stripped of citizenship in 2013. Whereas officers say they’re implementing immigration legal guidelines, a latest Al Jazeera documentary factors to a deeper historical past of anti-Blackness and anti-Haitian sentiment on the island.