Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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It is supposed to be high-tech, containing a series of cameras, radars, and drones that are supposed to run the length of the wall.
This wall, like many other border walls, has done intense environmental damage along the course of the border, particularly to the mangroves that run along the border where the wall is being built.
In 2023, I visited Dahabong, a town in the northern section of the Haiti border, to report on the Dominican Republic's immigration enforcement apparatus for myself.
Dahabong is where the Sesfront has a very important base.
And as I mentioned earlier, it's a place where a lot of the violence of the Parsley Massacre took place.
Sesfront's base in Dahabong is painted in a beige-brown camouflage pattern that makes it stick out like a sore thumb against the green forest background where it's stationed.
However, it does blend in to that strip of land where they've cut out to make the border wall.
You know, in many ways, the government tries to reshape the land in nature to fit its image.
Yeah, it's kind of the same here.
Like I was in a desert this weekend and I was like climbing up into mountains there and you can look down at the border wall and it's like a, it's like a scar across the landscape.
You can, for miles, as far as you can see, it just looks like somebody sliced through this, uh, in this case, this pristine desert landscape.
Right.
And, uh, yeah, I can see it being the only worse in these areas where like it's so lush and green.
Yeah, absolutely.
From aerial drone images that I've seen of the border, it definitely looks like a kind of sand-colored scar, especially in the Dajabong area, where you have green on both sides and then that sand color line running through it.
Yeah.
So the Dahabon border crossing is extremely close to Sestran's base there.
When I was there, the border between the two countries was officially closed because of a dispute over the canalization of the Massacre River.
Haitians needed the water for agriculture along the border, but Dominican officials said that the canalization would take water away from their own purposes.
A couple weeks after I was there, they opened up the border again, which was extremely necessary because border towns like Dahabong and Wanamint, which is the town on the Haitian side, rely on each other a lot for trade.
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