Relations between Haiti and its wealthier neighbour, the Dominican Republic, have been historically difficult on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Now the Dominican government has announced plans to build a wall between the two to end illegal migration.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Chappelle reports.
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Racism pure and simple, a tiny Island divided smh
The nerve Dominicans have by saying that , when all they do is the same by getting in boats to get to Puerto Rico illegally as well , so that means we need to make a border wall in the Ocean too ? 😂 This is stupid AF
Los dominicanos sentimos vergüenza de los dominicanos que van a esa isla gueto; por favor, en alta mar vuelquen esas yolas.
Un dominicano no debería pisar PR ni como turista.
The black man isn’t wanted anywhere in the world
This report ain’t fooling any Dominicans, build that wall please respect the borders and stop spreading misery worldwide
It’s not true! The leftist propaganda is real! A port country can’t take care of another but more poor country.. the solution is track the money that Haiti received from donation and the corrupts politicians has stolen
Now Puerto Rico needs a wall too cause poor Dominicans take coconut boats and invade the island. I’ll go for both walls.
Build the wall in Ocean. Lol. Haitians go to Puerto Rico in the coconut boats and invade the island. Jamaicans,Chinese, everybody)
@Mr West2 I traveled to Puerto Rico last year and during my visit over there more than 20 Dominican coconut boats full with Dominicans were intercepted. Yes, Puerto Rico needs a wall to keep poor Dominicans out of their island. And Dominican Republic needs a wall too keep poor Haitians out. Sad but true.
@Mirquella Santos Please put your wall in Puerto Rico we can care less what you say. Why Do you deport Hatians?
Deseo de todo corazón como dominicano que ningún dominicano pise Puerto Rico ni como turista.
En mi vida he visto una islita tan mala con los dominicanos como Puerto Rico y sin ningún motivo. Por eso no salen de una desgracia.
Vuelquen las yolas en alta mar mejor.
Te lo digo en serio; los dominicanos sentimos vergüenza de un dominicano que va a Puerto Rico.
@Mr West2 I’m deporting Haitians, please. I am an American so I have no saying there. I do feel sorry for Haitian children but DR is a poor country that has given a lot to Haiti so I am for the wall. I am also for a wall in PR cause poor Dominicans are inundating the island. 80% of the illegals entering PR are Dominicans.
If France paid back the Trillions of dollars to Haiti that was wrongfully taken. Haiti would be in a better financial situation.
France and the USA did that on purpose, it was all by design to make a powerful black country poor until the end of time. … You see, white powers that be, don’t like to see black countries rising in prosperity. They’ll do anything to sabotage it!
This is such a bias reporting
A wall? Like the one that keeps the illegal inmigrants coming into the US? Let me tell you how thats gonna go. They will hire some private company and report incredible amounts of money spent into said structure. Most of that money will go into some ones pocket, not into building said wall. Its been done in the past.
Sounds like a Dominican Trump 😡
That’s crazy cuz of what I see is that the white supremacists government is trying to control God’s chozen people that was scattered all over South America and the Caribbean island’s
And watch when haiti thrives then they’re going to want to benefit and come there smh
Mexico should lend a helping hand to the Haitians. The few that are there in Mexico seem to be well liked.
Things aren’t this bad in Cuba.
Ok well since the DR is doing so well now, everyone from the DR that came to America for the same reasons should be sent back.
There is a difference between coming legally, and coming illegally.
The Dominicans have the nerve to build a wall when the Bahamas has a big problem with their fishermen stealing our fishes . They be using chemicals in order to get the lobsters plus we have problems with them robbing our fishermen
Hhahhahaah
We dominicans are best thief’s we are proud
I’ve never seen a country that desperately wants to be white, besides… Brazil.
I love how they use African accent for Dominicans and England accent for Hattians. The Haitian has a Dominican accent.
I support you, DR! You have Americans here who believe in you
Gracias amigo! Also the Dominican people we support the USA and we prefer you before Chinese.
PS: Sorry for my English.
@Oscar A. Ramírez, As a dominican too, I don’t prefer none of them. Lol
Fu u we do not like trump or anyone
@P L “We” or just you?
@His Dudeness 👏
“racist”
This is the result of ignorance, and not knowing (or caring) about your ancestral history.
AT ALL !!!!!
“THE POTS CALLING THE KETTLES BLACK”
Good, about time. I live in DR and we needed that wall very badly since 20 years ago
Are the Mexicans paying for the wall?
Call Trump, He’ll fix that problem.
That’s rraaacist!
Haïti is still being punished for it’s slavery revolt in the 1700s. May you rise and flourish
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Bingo! How dare you be independent and not under someone’s rule
Dominicans are lowkey racist towards the Haitians sum domincans dont even claim the black in them which they clearly are
Ugh, what a ugly shitholes those 👎
What’s the point of a 2 minute video about such an interesting topic? I was just getting into it and then it ended.
Didn’t the Dominicans got their land from Haitians..?🤦🏿♂️
No, dominicans have been here from 1493, France invaded a part of our territory in XVII century, after several years of fighting, a French king ascended to the throne in Spain, so he recognized the french presence in the island, in the XVIII century the French started to full their colony with african slaves (the haitians ancestors), so the haitians steal their land from the french.
The Dominican republic got their wealth from trafficking, they got nothing of a mass export of goods etc🕵🏾♂️
Why was rhe last man saying thay it’s a persecution of the government. He doesn’t understand that Dominican Republic has it right to protect itself. What a people, hey the United Nation is not doing anything for Haiti just taking money from other governments.
I hope and pray 🙏 I will see the day haiti 🇭🇹 rise up
They have very corrupt polititians and a hard wired poverty culture. They have to give up those traditions and in order to have become prosperous.
It’s going to happen. Nothing ever stay the same. Them people out here promoting to open the borders for Latin American drom Mexico, etc…
You wont
Is this ok ?
DR is no better then Haiti… it is classified as a third world country… still a poor country to me..
Hahaha the Dominican Republic is the first economy of the Caribbean and Central America and the 7th of Latin America.
Haiti is the last.
Hahaha
@Oscar A. Ramírez Doesn’t matter, Dominican Republic is still a developing country by global standards. And lets not forget, Haiti was the one and only country in the Americas to hold a successful slave rebellion and kick out their colonisers. The first ever black republic.
@palsos123 Exactly; The Dominican Republic is a developing nation with more middle class than poor.
Do you really think that we Dominicans and the rest of the world care that a slave revolt triumphed in Haiti? Today Haiti is a completely broken country and an enemy of stability and development.
Haitians have not been able to manage their country and that is why it is among the 9 poorest on the planet and the Dominican Republic is the economy 70 and something on the entire planet and we have similar resources.
Can you imagine that in 1844 the Dominicans could not have made us independent from the Haitians?
Today Santo Domingo would be a city full of rubble and favelas like Port-au-Prince (capital of Haiti) and our entire deforested central mountain range.
Sorry, Haiti and the Haitians are no better than the Dominican Republic and the Dominicans.
But but walls are racist
Lol racist dominican are funny
I am really sick and tired of seeing this reports always trying to make my beloved Dominican Republic seem evil just for trying to protect its borders. We are a very small country with many problems to be fixed and taking on Haiti’s problems will destroy our progress. There are many countries with more wealth and land that could help by granting the Haitian people visas but they turn a blind eye. I support the the building of the border wall. This is not a racist matter, it is a matter of protecting our economy.
Haiti will always have economic issues as long as they are still paying reparations to France.
I’m dominican and I’m ashamed of this measure, this isn’t border protection, this is attacking what we fear.
Lol why is this on my notifications feed ?
My problem is the black Dominicans are also being kicked out, I’ve heard Horror stories.
@Outhere I am dominican and I agree most dominicans are black
@P LThey aren’t saying that they’re white neither. Saying that you’re dominican on an anonymous youtube account yet hating on dominicans…. Yep we should believe that. If that’s all you have to add to defend your opinion than I’m done with this conversation.
@Outhere I am just saying that we dominicans are native tainos and mostly blacks
@Outhere it’s sad that the minority of whites are trying to talk for the majority of blacks in dominican republic
@Outhere this whites are communists
But I was told wall are racist wuhhhhhhh
The irony of Dominicans crying about racism when they get to the states….This is disgusting and confusing
Are we gonna call these people racist too or are they just concerned citizens…?
France and the United States are to blame for the conditions in Haiti today. That country has been required to pay France for decades folowing the slave revolt in the 1800s. The US took France’s side fearing a slave revolt in their own country, and bared Haitians from espablishing any kind of commerce to their half of the island.
D.R pulled a trump card.
Shame shame they all black. Just like Africa. They wont come together to make a strong g union. Each one has something to offer
Haiti has nothing to offer, only slave labor, and we are currently taking advantage of that. We could continue to do so even with our beautiful border fence.
To be fair most Dominicans are mixed race. And on top of that, there is too much bad blood and negative history for the DR and Haiti to form a union. From the days of the parsley massacre, to the constant mistreatment Haitians have faced at the hands of Dominicans, to the cultural differences between the two nations.
First country to get rid of slave owners. That help Dominican. Smh.. and America a little.
That’s not true walls don’t work!
Just ask pelosi and Schumer and all the rest of the Democrats
Life has to be really bad if you want to go to the Dominican Republic
DR has a right to defend their borders. What’s going on in Haiti?
The only reason a Dominican president had the courage to even publicly propose this was because an American president did it first. Thats the the world works. If American jumps, you can jump. If America falls, you must fall.
I wish The Bahamas could do the same.
With who and why?
As an American Dominican I know of this problem. I’ve visited my home land recently and it’s an obvious problem. If a group of people decimate their own land, how can you expect the other side to welcome you with open arms?
That’s a fact I was thinking the same👍
What I don’t like is the antojarían rhetoric the Dominican government is trying to cover up under the guise of national security. The funny thing about it is the attitude of many Dominicans in the US. They’re all about right of immigrants (legal or not) and were against Trump and his border wall…even though he gave the same reasons as the Dominican government. But now that the shoe is on the other foot they’re all about a wall. Bunch of hypocrites. How about you pay your debts with that money or invest it in your people. No let’s build a wall..because that worked so well here. The Dominican government should be ashamed.
My daughter in law hates the Haitians. She hates visiting ,her family in the Dominican Republic.
There is a clear distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants.Trump was labeled a racist but there is no country if there is no border
The Dominicans are being racist.
At least the DR government and it’s ppl may have no choice but to appreciate Trump and his causes
Bet they got tired of blks mixing with their people lol
@Alex Vill 90 percent look black and most are blacks so what’s your point
@P L lmao, no they are not, most doms look mix with blk because of all the mixing with blks mainly do to haitians over there & african americans in the states. Of all genes out there in the world blks & asains are generally the strongest so with that being the case how do u explain none mix doms ? Doms that look like ur typical latino as in like mexicans, colombians, salvadoreans or guatemalans etc.?
Full latinos are only mix with 2 things… native americans & spaniards !
@Alex Vill you are dumb we don’t have asians and the ones that look mexicans are half breeds
@Alex Vill africans outnumbered spaniards 6 to 1 in dr
@Alex Vill read the dominican history cause u sounding dumb. I am dominican and I know my history cause I study it.
I do feel pity for the people of Haiti because they are victims of a corrupt govt. Its estimated that Haiti received 16B to help them recover from the 2010 earthquake. Many nations contributed the world over. No one seems to know how all of that money was used(or stashed away). Money that could easily have gotten their economy flourishing by providing Haitians farm equipment or seed for crops and lift their people out of poverty. Unless Haitians overturn their corrupt govt things will remain the same.
“Shared ancestry and history”, that’s some bs they just had to add to the end. Dominicans have as much in common with Haiti as they do with Nigeria or the Congo in Africa. Unless you want to say that they are both black, but you can say that about any country with a black population. The biggest difference between Haiti and DR has to be that Haitians have a history of black supremacism and slavery, where as the Dominican side of the island never had problems of slavery in their history and are more racially diverse in their families because of it.
Bunch of hypocrites. Dominican illegally migrates to Puerto Rico and the USA. Then their complaint about the USA being racist or making it difficult for them to become USA citizens. Lol. Treat Hatiti the way you want to be treated.
So deport them. No one is saying let them in of u illegal….deport. And I’m Dominican my self ☺️
So u will punish people that are trying to get a better life what makes u better then the government of dominican republic
Dominican Republic pay Haiti with cheap labor. You see millions of Haitians working for cheap labor.
Racist
Billions were donated for Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake; much to the Clinton Foundation for Haiti. So much could have been done
What everyone fail to realize is Dominicans always been a helping hand to Haiti when everyone else turn their back on them but now we’re the bad guys hypocrite we just trying to protect our borders like any other country in the world!!
I wish Biden understood that
I agree with the Dominicans. Haitians need to sort out their problems.
As an American, I must ask….
WHY ARE YOU ALL STILL SEPARATED??? NO ONE FINDS IT A BIT FOOLISH??? OR SCANDALOUS????
As humans I feel we have just too much desensitization going on right now. No one cares enough about anything and THAT’S A PROBLEM
White supremacists
people forget that the dominican war for independence was soley based on the fact that the rich mestizo class of the DR did not want to be ruled former slaves. The Haitian revolution of 1804 set the stage for free Black people everywhere in the world and to this day Haiti is still legally forced by France to pay money as “loss of revenue” for them fighting for their freedoms. Even when the country of Greece became an independent nation, Haiti was the first country to recognize their sovereignty and aided them financially and militarily. Since its inception Haiti has been attacked my world powers over and over again namely the French and the United States who have consistently rigged elections in Haiti and installed genocidal leaders who will be do the biddings of america and france.
DR too busy spreading its legs for Israel and USA but want to say they’re just a nation trying to protect its sovereignty. Absolutely laughable! DR wouldn’t even exist without Haiti!
It is sad how we live in the same island have to live divided..SMH..
I am tired of hearing all this History and excuses. Forget about DR When is Haiti going to do something for itself.
Where I live I don’t worry about my neighbor I worry about taking care of my home. Millions of dollars are donated for Haiti,
and billions of dollars donated to Haiti earthquake. Where is the money?
Is that the better way? does a wall actually helps Haiti current situation? I mean I fully understand why but in the long run will it really be useful?
The DR is a USA puppet…the government don’t create jobs then blame economy on Haitian…that’s a old political trick…don’t do anything then blame someone else
Fasting growing economy means nothing without sufficient job creation..it’s the government like majority of government if not all is the problem
Ban Dominican people from Leeward and windward islands same islands racist policies.
WHERE DID HAITI MONEY DONATION WENT
There’s definitely a problem with the influx of migrants, but it’s like Haiti is left to figure out a solution to a problem that the citizens did not create. There is great corruption on both sides, but it also pains me to see how we can’t figure out a way to help each other.
The colorism of it all. Racist against their own.
Racism is a powerful drug
Leaving one 💩hole to live in another 💩hole ….. I live in California so I don’t have room to talk😔
If Puerto Rico were a country with sovernty they should close the entering of people from Dominican Republic and see how that would feel.
If Puerto Rico were a sovereign country; it would be just as poor as Jamaica and El Salvador.
Walls are only as good as the amount of and quality of guards patrolling it. And the longer the wall, the less likely it will work.
Hence why I’ll never understand the dummies that thought the orange con man was selling them a viable solution.
Smh the problem is Corruption, government corruption. You see those guys with the suites, they living right, they eating every night, mean while the rest of the people have to fend for themselves
America should put a border for you too to keep you out your gave us a lot of problems you get food stamps you go and we got to pay for your housing you pay for your medical all of y’all should go back to your country then
They should look into what the Haitian government do with all the money that is donated to Haiti ? How no matter how much money is donated to the country nothing changes
THe Dominican Republic receives Haitian immigrants in masses because Haiti is so corrupt that the gov officials only care about their pockets and forget the Haitian people. THt last person who spoke there last needs to check his facts. Its about time Haiti takes control of their nation and take care of their people who have suffered enough.
So Dominican border wall good but when the US does it to secure it’s southern border it is bad
The hatians helped the Dominican Republic gain their independence and this is the thanks they get.
I wish Uruguay could build a wall to keep the Domincians out 🤭
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interesting, what are some suggestions on fixing these problems?
USA should take them all. But not, they love to criticize DR better
Ahhhh
DR is learning about walls from its allies
China and The US
Dominicans go to US and Haitians go to Dominica.
BUILD THE WALL ! WALLS ARE EFFECTIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!