Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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They are in charge of securing and, quote-unquote, protecting the Dominican border with Haiti.
They are an arm of the military and were created in 2006.
That same year, unidentified, quote unquote, U.S.
experts reported that there were a, quote, series of weaknesses that will lead to all kinds of illicit activities along the border, according to a 2006 article from Dominican Today.
Per the same article, the military patrolled the area beforehand, but the study revealed the lack of and bad shape of the Dominican Army's facilities, the lack of training, logistics, weapons, vehicles, garments, as well as low wages and bad nutrition for these soldiers.
And I should say that's a quote from the Dominican Today's article.
And I want to talk a little bit about the border before I explain it later on in more detail.
But a lot of the border that I've been to between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is along the Massacre River where part of the Parsley Massacre happened.
And you essentially have this very big cement and iron and steel border wall going up that has completely separated Haiti.
this contiguous piece of land where people were once upon a time over a hundred years ago, able to more or less walk between and walk over without much restriction at all.
And, you know, the place where they've built the barrier, this was not like what, you know, whenever someone from Puerto Rico, whenever someone talks to me about the U.S.
border, I'm imagining the big iron wall throughout the desert.
This was not that.
This was kind of very lush land.
green mangroves.
There used to be one big forest, but now they created a bayed strip of land that now separates that forest that once was one and then put the border wall there.
So a lot of this modern history of collaboration between the U.S.
and the DR immigration enforcement is recorded in Todd Miller's Border Patrol Nation and Empire of Borders, both of which I recommend everyone go read.
Yeah, Miller is great.
Yeah, Miller's books are fantastic.
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