Claire's Brother
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I visited some of these sugar plantations in 2023, and many of the Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent who live there are descendants of the ones Trujillo pushed into the region.
While anti-Haitianism already existed before Trujillo
He cemented it into the political structures of the Dominican Republic to the point that it still continues incredibly strong into the modern day.
About 51% of Dominicans believe that immigration harms the country per a 2024 poll by the polling firm Latino Barometro.
Many Haitians come to the Dominican Republic seeking a better life for themselves and their families, much like immigrants in the U.S.
And similarly to the U.S., getting a visa or becoming a citizen for them is extremely difficult.
This isn't to say that there aren't a lot of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic, and I should also say that they are by far the largest immigrant group in the country, which makes sense because they're next-door neighbors.
The construction and the sugar cutting industry are completely dependent on cheap Haitian labor.
The sugar cutting industry is heavily reliant on this labor, a lot of which is done by undocumented immigrants.
Many people over the years have called it a quote unquote modern form of slavery.
I've been to these camps and what they endure for extremely little pay is horrific.
I went there at the tail end of 2023.
And while there are some places set up by the companies that own those sugar producing regions, they're called batallas inside of the sugar cane mazes.
Some of the batallas have houses made out of cement with electricity, and some are completely degraded, made from wood that's rotting, and they have no access to running water or electricity.
There have been, over the years...
attempts by both human rights groups and the companies that own those regions.
It wasn't benevolently, is my opinion on it, but more because of the pressure that they've received over the years to move these people into somewhat better conditions.
And thankfully, for some of them, they have.
For others, they have not.
A lot of the Haitian migration in the last decades has come after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
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