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Dominican Republic says will expel up to 10,000 Haitian migrants a week
Al jazeera ^ | Oct 3 2024

Posted on 10/04/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by aquila48

The Dominican Republic says it plans to expel as many as 10,000 Haitian migrants per week, despite a longstanding call from the United Nations to end forced returns to Haiti amid a surge in gang violence there.

Homero Figueroa, a Dominican presidential spokesman, said on Wednesday that the “operation aims to reduce the excessive migrant populations detected in Dominican communities”.

Figueroa added that the expulsions to Haiti, which shares a border with the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, would begin “immediately”.

The announcement comes just days after the UN reported that at least 3,661 people had been killed in Haiti in the first half of 2024 amid the “senseless” gang violence that has engulfed the country.

Haitian leaders warned last week that they are “nowhere near winning” the battle against the armed groups, which for months have been carrying out attacks and kidnappings across the capital of Port-au-Prince and in other parts of the country.

The violence has internally displaced more than 700,000 Haitians, according to UN figures, and nearly half of the population — more than 5.4 million people — also faces acute hunger.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alejandromayorkas; caribbean; dominicanrepublic; grangrif; haiti; hispaniola; homerofigueroa; pontsonde; portauprince; unitednations; untiednations
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1 posted on 10/04/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

DR has that many? I thought they were shooting Haitians trying to break in. Screw the UN, Dominicans know what Haitians will do, they can easily see it in their own backyard on that island.


2 posted on 10/04/2024 8:14:09 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: aquila48

Do NOT send them here. We have our own economic and disaster refugees here the government isn’t doing a damned thing about. Suck it up DR and take your fair share.


3 posted on 10/04/2024 8:14:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: aquila48

<< more than 5.4 million people — also faces acute hunger. >>

The cat population there must be zero.


4 posted on 10/04/2024 8:14:49 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: aquila48
And...here they come!


5 posted on 10/04/2024 8:16:25 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: Gaffer
Do NOT send them here.

I'm sure the administration has an armada of ships and planes standing by as we speak. FEMA will fund it with newly found cash discovered next to the Ukraine account.

6 posted on 10/04/2024 8:20:51 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: aquila48

Must have cleared out all the feral cats....


7 posted on 10/04/2024 8:23:51 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: mikey_hates_everything

It is like a zombie movie over there! Can it be classified as a “shithole” now?


8 posted on 10/04/2024 8:25:45 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: aquila48

Expel them to where??? My guess... The United States and Canada?


9 posted on 10/04/2024 8:26:43 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: aquila48

Here they come! Hide your pets and stay off the roads and sidewalks.


10 posted on 10/04/2024 8:27:52 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New "American Dream"! U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ouch


11 posted on 10/04/2024 8:28:08 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: jerod

DR and Haiti long history of animosity.

Like North & South Korea.


12 posted on 10/04/2024 8:29:15 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Gaffer

To the DR, their fair share is probably zero or close to it.
BTW who determines what someone’s fair share is?


13 posted on 10/04/2024 8:33:08 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Gaffer

No, no, no. The Dominicans are rightly concerned that these people from a savage and lawless country would destabilize the state, but were more than happy to take all comers. What’s the worst that could happen?


14 posted on 10/04/2024 8:35:03 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: usurper

If they dump thousands of these slags off in the midst of the Helene aftermath (where each victim gets $750?) and give them housing, $5K visas, food, etc. that shows you the ‘joy’ of Democrats and Que-Mala. Abject cluelessness and contempt for our own citizens.


15 posted on 10/04/2024 8:35:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Maine Mariner

Their ‘fair share’ is ALL of them. They’re adjacent, have an army - maybe able to do what’s necessary.

We do not need and cannot take any more of them, Period. They are only here because Biden/Harris legitimized them with an unused CBP app that’s nothing more than government spittle. If Trump wins, he should pull that status and send them back.


16 posted on 10/04/2024 8:39:43 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: j.havenfarm

There are lots of savage and lawless states. I see no reason to ‘rescue’ and coddle refugees from there. Put them on a boat, give them some guns and let them fight for their own freedom.


17 posted on 10/04/2024 8:42:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

bttt


18 posted on 10/04/2024 8:46:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: aquila48

But what about democracy?


19 posted on 10/04/2024 8:46:47 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Mr. Mojo
"The cat population there must be zero."

And the mice and rat population is increasing.

20 posted on 10/04/2024 8:47:58 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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