Defending a Country Against Haitians (And Others)

Lessons from the Dominican Republic

I firmly believe that nationalism is not the domain of any single race, ethnicity or people. Plenty of nations on this planet (most of them in fact) display a preference for their own and a righteous distaste for foreign cultures and behavior.

Right now it is Haitian behavior in the United States which is taking the media, and especially social media, by storm. While stories of Haitians eating house pets may be apocryphal, Haitians have caused a four fold increase in vehicular fatalities in Springfield, Ohio and one such accident recently resulted in the death of a young child.

More than that, though, the Haitians are changing the very fabric of yet another American community at a time when 68% of Americans feel that immigration is transforming their communities beyond recognition and causing “major problems” for Americans.

55% of Americans would like to see the mass deportation of illegal aliens and nearly 70% are concerned about the continually escalating immigration situation in the country.

With these figures in mind, it is clear that Americans, and not just those in Springfield, would welcome the return of Haitians to their homeland or at very least to the country they entered from: Mexico, in this instance.

And one country is already leading the way on deporting Haitians. The Dominican Republic shares a land border with Haiti and has long played host to almost a million Haitians.

Now, the Dominican Republic is taking robust action to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants, deport Haitians in the country, and ensure that domestic security dominates the agenda of the Dominican government.

The United States could clearly learn some lessons here and the American people should be able to clearly see that if a country many times smaller and poorer than the US can defend its borders then so can we.

Border walls!

You indeed read that correctly, the Dominican Republic has constructed a border wall with Haiti and placed armed guards along its length in order to prevent illegal entry into the country. The government then closed the entire border with Haiti and has announced plans to continue the construction of more wall segments as the budget allows.

The wall also features 70 watchtowers   and 41 gates which allow the Dominican Republic’s troops to patrol both sides of the barrier.

At 12 feet high the barrier is tall enough to prevent easy crossing and to allow the country to monitor the other side with commercial equipment, a feature the Dominican Republic is calling a “smart wall.”

Technology aside, a simple border barrier is better than none and American politicians could learn a lot from the Dominican Republic.

Deportations

Combined with the construction of a border wall to prevent the entry of more illegal Haitian immigrants the government of the Dominican Republic has begun to deport the Haitians already in the country.

There are (were?) an estimated 500,000 to 1 million Haitians living in the Dominican Republic (a country with 11 million inhabitants) according to the latest data available.

That is quite a lot of foreigners in a country with such a small population and comparatively poor economy and yet the Dominican government has managed to deport hundreds of thousands of people. It is estimated by international organizations that more than 225,000 Haitians have been deported from the Dominican Republic in 2023 alone. The Dominican government has released lower but still robust numbers and claims to have deported 174,602 Haitians during 2023.

The way for these deportations was cleared by a 2013 ruling of the country’s Supreme Court that removed citizenship from some 200,000 Haitians born in the Dominican Republic to illegal aliens. Something which American jurists and citizens should look at closely consider that more than 6 million people born in the United States have illegal alien parents, and those are just the under-18 year old children of illegals in the US.

Still, the deportations continue. The country is deporting roughly 16,500 Haitians a month according to its April data.

Enough Said

There is not much more to say. A small, relatively poor, relatively resource lacking country has deported up to 25% of its Haitian population while the American political class is busy arguing over the supposed virtues of flooding entire cities and states with Haitian illegal aliens.

There are 1.2-ish million Haitians in the United States, some 40% of whom are not yet American citizens and many of whom could be denaturalized if we were to take a similar approach to the children of illegal aliens that the Dominican Republic has.

There are lessons to learned.

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