Claire's Brother
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However, before diving into the current immigration situation in the Dominican Republic and how a lot of it has come as a result of collaboration with American immigration enforcement,
I want to give some historical context about how, in a very real way, the United States created the Dominican-Haiti border.
The Dominican Republic was originally a Spanish colony.
Haiti was originally a French colony.
Haiti became independent, then invaded the Dominican Republic.
Then they fought them back to become independent themselves.
But throughout all of that time, the Dominican-Haiti border was in amorphous space, not the kind of quote-unquote hard border that it is today.
There had been agreements on where the border was supposed to be.
People roughly knew where that border was supposed to be on a map and on the earth if they lived near that area.
However, it was just...
Kind of essentially an imaginary line that ran along the 240 miles of land that make up the border between the two countries.
However, in 1905, the U.S.
established a customs receivership over the Dominican Republic to force the Caribbean nation to pay its foreign debts and ostensibly protect it from a possible European invasion, which is a classic Monroe Doctrine move, of course.
Yeah, many such cases.
This agreement was officially ratified for a 1907 convention and created the Dominican Border Guard to police the frontier between the two countries and make sure that all duties were collected from commerce and people crossing the border, according to a journal article titled Haitians, Magic and Money, Rasa and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby.
While these weren't the first border guards, they were essential to turning the borderlands into the border as it exists today, one of the most highly regulated and policed borders in the Western Hemisphere.
And I should also say that at some points throughout Dominican history, the military patrolled the border.
Per a document from the Marines titled Marines in the Dominican Republic 1916 to 1924, North Americans were part of the Dominican Frontier Guard that regulated this border.
Some would later go on to become part of the Guardia Nacional Dominicana, which was created by the American military government that controlled the DR between 1916 and 1924.
In 1921, the GND turned into the Policía Nacional Dominicana, which also stationed people at the border at that time.
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