Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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that the Dominican Republic's immigration enforcement are deporting are people that the Dominican Republic made stateless in the first place.
So they essentially created this gigantic group of people that they are now deporting, right?
It's the way that the nation state operates to kind of push people, to push people that it considers undesirable out of that nation's borders.
Get it.
This is a, like Ben Anderson, right?
When he's writing about nations, there's no nation can be co-terminus with all of humanity.
And then when we combine the nation with the state, that's when we get, if no nation can be co-terminus with all humanity and then the state is policing who, and it's not, is, and it's not part of the nation and expelling those are not like that.
That's when we get what we see here, right?
Camp what we see here in the U S. Hmm.
We talked about this a little bit earlier, but whenever I talk to Haitians or Dominicans of Haitian descent about immigration enforcement in their country, they pretty much tell me the same thing.
To the Dominican government, everyone black is Haitian.
And we talked about this and how the conception of Dominicanidad has become separate from the way that they view Haitians as black.
Many civil society and human rights organizations have documented how the DGM uses racial profiling as a justification to detain pretty much whoever they want.
This got so bad that in 2022, the American State Department issued a travel warning for quote-unquote darker-skinned Americans about the risk of being swept up in the country's immigration crackdown.
And to me at the time, having written about that, it's kind of incredible to see an American agency be like, hey, the racism in this country is so bad, you should be on the lookout.
Yeah, yeah, like you might not want to go.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's wild.
Yeah.
So the DGM routinely performs midnight immigration raids on Haitian communities, break down their doors and drag people kicking and screaming from their beds, then load them up on the repurposed cattle trucks and horse trucks that I was talking about earlier.
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