Group in Haiti urges Ottawa to condemn inhumane and racist treatment in Dominican Republic deportations
A group in Haiti that supports people sent home from the neighbouring Dominican Republic is calling on Canada to raise the alarm about accusations of inhumane and racist treatment of those fleeing chaos.
In recent months, the group has reported a sharp uptick in Dominican authorities rounding up Haitians across the country and holding them in conditions that have raised concerns among international groups. In the first nine months of 2022, the Dominican Republic deported 108,436 migrants – more than three times the number in 2016, when the country started recording such data.
GARR reported that 16,892 Haitians were sent over border in January, 126 of whom were pregnant, and 70 of whom were minors, with numbers trending up since last fall. The numbers don’t include people who wilfully returned to Haiti. Last November, the U.S. embassy in its capital, Santo Domingo, issued an alert for “darker skinned U.S. citizens and U.S. citizens of African descent” in the Dominican Republic, saying Americans had reported being “delayed, detained, or subject to heightened questioning at ports of entry and in other encounters with immigration officials, based on their skin colour.”
Guillaume said the government isn’t following the agreement, and is conducting nighttime raids and detaining Haitians without giving them a chance to go home and retrieve cash savings accumulated over years. Some migrants even claim that their employers phoned migration authorities in advance of pay days, to avoid paying wages.
“We see trucks unloading Haitians, day and night, with people who have no bearings, who don’t know what to do, who arrived empty-handed because they didn’t have time to retrieve their luggage,” he said.
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