Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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About 5,800 were detained by the Dominican Army.
And about 2,300 by the Specialized Land Border Security Corps, which is known as CESFRANT.
They essentially patrol the national border with Haiti.
And about 1,300 of those people were detained by the national police.
These numbers are so staggering because all of these law enforcement agencies are trying to meet a 10,000 a week quota that President Luis Abinader set for the Dominican government in 2024 and continues to follow.
This number to me is really, really staggering.
And it's kind of horrific because you read it on paper and it's hard to really understand the immensity of this mechanism to forcefully move people out of the country and as well as
all of the law enforcement work and immigration enforcement work that goes into detaining those people in the first place, then sending them to immigration centers and then deporting them outside of the Dominican Republic.
And the way that that usually happens is that they are loaded into these trucks, which are converted horse trucks.
Sometimes they're like the little short ones and sometimes they're the very long ones that you see to move pallets of stuff that have this...
cage built onto the back and uh people are just stuffed to the brim inside of there it's it's really incredibly inhumane yeah damn that's rough
So migrants are routinely extorted while in immigration detention.
Per an anonymous source that spoke with Listin Diario, a national paper in the DR, that detainees are routinely hit up for bribes during immigration raids and during their detention.
Per the article, guards in Jaina, the largest immigration detention center in the DR, were charging about $200 and $270 to be freed.
Which might not seem like an insurmountable amount of money in the U.S., but it's about half of the average monthly salary in the DR. And these migrants are making much, much less than that.
The same report says that guards sometimes charge migrants' families so detainees can get food while detained.
So much of the rhetoric that Abinader and other Dominican officials use to justify their actions, especially in recent years, is that immigration contributes to the destabilization of their society.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of Haitian immigrants are just trying to live in peace and escape the violence or crisis that they're facing in their home country.
And like I said earlier, a lot of industries in the DR rely on cheap Haitian labor.
And I would be remiss to mention that a lot of the people
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