(31 Mar 2025)
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic – 30 March, 2025
1. Demonstrators marching and waving Dominican Republic flags
2. People banging on drums
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angelo Vazquez, President of the Antigua Orden Dominicana:
"We call on all the Dominican people to be ready for a call for a national strike."
4. Police line up in anti-riot gear
5. People holding large Dominican flag
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Xiomara Calderón, demonstrator:
"The migrants are causing problems for those who work here, the Dominicans. The Dominicans already can’t get work because they have been replaced. They have been replaced by the companies and everywhere."
7. Family cheering the march
8. Demonstrators marching
9. Police taking position near demonstrators
10. Demonstrators holding sign reading (Spanish) "We don’t want refugees"
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people marched in the Dominican town of Punta Cana on Sunday to demand tougher measures against Haitian migrants.
The march was organized by the ultra-nationalist group Antigua Orden Dominicana, whose members led the demonstration wearing paramilitary uniforms.
The president of the Antigua Orden Dominicana, Angelo Vasquez, called for a national strike to force the government to implement tougher deportation measures.
The popular tourist resort of Punta Cana is home to a large population of Haitian nationals who work in the tourism and construction sectors.
There have been no reports of confrontations between demonstrators and Haitian workers.
Anti-Haitian migration sentiment has been increasing in the Dominican Republic since last year when the government announced it would deport up to 10,000 Haitians per week, citing an “excess” of immigrants as relations between the countries sharing the island of Hispaniola continue to deteriorate.
These are the largest deportations of this kind in recent history.
At least half a million Haitians live in the Dominican Republic, according to human rights groups.
More than a quarter million people were deported last year, and more than 31,200 in January alone.
Activists say the deportations put the lives of thousands at risk due to the widespread violence in Haiti that has left thousands dead and displaced more than a million people.
Dominican officials argue that Haitian immigrants have overburdened the country’s public services, with more than 80,000 new Haitian students enrolled in public schools in the past four years.
Health officials say Haitian women account for up to 70% of births in the country, costing the government millions of dollars.
AP Video by Martin Adames
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