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Why dont those protestors in NYC comment about this?

If the immigrants are willing to go to such extremes why isn't this condemned?

How is a stranger allowed to take a child away from their mother to unknown lands? (If it is with consent) Or why isn't this human trafficking denounced? (If it is forceful smuggling)

The developed world (along with the Haitian oligarchy) needs to stop depriving its citizenry!!!!

Place blame were it belongs!!!!!!! No doubt the Dominican gov't and citizenry are also at fault for their willingness to accept cheap labor, yet a root cause analysis undoubtedly leads to the conclusion that the economic conditions of haiti are at blame for this crisis.

As a concerned dominican i must acknowledge that the economic prosperity of my country also rests on the prosperity of our neighbor's!!!

So to those dominicans who feel that the poor souls that cross our borders are to blame think again and to those

haitians who feel that dominicans mistreat you or feel superior or even hate you first take a look at how your government and wealthy countrymen and women treat you!

In reality, Dominicans shouldn't even feel superior to Haitians or anybody else for we all emigrate in mass to other lands and want to feel welcome in our new homes in Brooklyn, Washington Heights, Dajabon, Santiago, Puerto Rico or Port-Au-Prince. Migration has been a Human phenomenon since pre-historic times. It is unnatural to try to stop it. Migration is a Natural LAW. Human traficking is different though for that is criminal activity and it should denounced and stopped. The Dominican elite and army and some unscrupulous Haitians are guilty of that. They should be brought to justice as criminals.

some "unscrupulous haitians"

piti I don't think there is any Dominican elite or military general that is currently ordering a few good haitian children slaves for his finca.

You need to be reminded that slavery is strictly a haitian phenomena and no Dominican elite or Military general is going to stop your cousins from slaving their children, is in your DNA montro.

So please read the clever post by HiHater and stop looking for blame in DR territory and look at yourself in the mirror and then do something about it, get five of your compadres and go stage a protest in from of the Haitian consulate in NY denouncing child slavery in your country.

Maybe you can take josean with you, he could be the poster child for this endeavor, been that he was trafficked to DR as a child.

leave josean alone he is a nice guy that likes to take whiffs of dagtans speedos after he takes them off! he is a tremendous undercover haitian that is obsessed with LIEONEL..

economic prosperity of my country = Please where 50% of dominicans do not have enough to eat and our great leader has ruined our country.

The act presents a pretty sad statement....migrants fleeing the poorest nation in the Carribbean for the blessings of the SECOND poorest nation in the Caribbean!

old_school_trinitario, MIRABUENO, justify the need for continued reasearch into new psychotherapeutic drugs!


http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/180/prescrip.html

Then don't have kids!!

We should load planes pack with condoms and drop them in Haiti!.

Who would then buy our low quality products products?

Haití es el segundo socio efectivo más importante que tiene República Dominicana en el exterior, debido a que los industriales dominicanos tienen la facilidad de venderle productos con bajos controles de calidad y a bajo costo, y la distancia permite un ahorro en el transporte que se convierte en una ventaja competitiva frente a otras nacionles de la región que no tienen frontera con esa nación.

Se estima que el comercio entre las dos naciones es de unos US$650 millones al año, pero la gran mayoría de ese monto es de exportaciones de dominicanos hacia esa nación.

Haití es un cliente importante para República Dominicana.

Los haitianos demandan de los dominicanos toda clase de productos, especialmente cemento gris, varilla, cartón, alimentos procesados como pastas alimenticias, pasta de tomate, harina y bienes no comestibles como pasta dental, jabón, detergente, así como alimentos sin procesar como pollos y huevos.

Source for posting above:

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=127353

Those Dam facts are so darn stubborn!

alleluia !
some one finally called off jose n ann's bluff
i knew all along that heshe was a Haitian disguised as A Dominican who has a fixation with LION-NEL our great spiritual leader.

Te conocimes bacalao ,auque vengas disfrazao.

Josean is a hypocrite

ateo

El piti josean is nothing more than a very frustrated haitian with some serious identity problems.

He claims to be dominican but everytime he opens his pipehole he comes across as a back staving
good for nothing traitor.

always degrading DR and all its people, according to him we are a racist nation with a deep seated hatred for haitians, we are so bad that he needs to denounced us to the world and go as far as to side with sonia pierre and the Jesuit priest who made their personal crusade to slander our good name abroad.

just read his latest jab.

" Who would then buy our low quality products ? "

low quality products, you mean the ones that you say you consume as a dominican man or the ones that are only available because you are dirt eating haitian with no other choice.

never mind he's going off topic just to post his garbage

"piti I don't think there is any Dominican elite or military general ..."
old_school_trinitario

You "don't think" is not a surprise to us; "thinking" requires a brain. So far, you seem to be the only person on the planet not knowing of the complicity of your army, elite and authorities in the human traficking going on at the border. Again, it is no surprise to us, piti.

whip himher good while heshe is down.
Hope heshe will leave LION NEL alone

What does the Haitians lobbyist have to say about this?
You see jose-ano, as a haitian, you have no right to open your cakehole and attack LF after all you're not Dominican, therefore he's not your president.
You are an infiltrated, backstabbing haitian, go to haiti and protest preval, leave LF to us real Dominican, you have to stick to one agenda, don't attack DR and its president pretending to be a Dominican, attack as what you are; what the hell "our low quality product" has to do with haitian smuggling innocent children into DR?
Go protest preval, the haitian police, and the haitian population in general.

Where's oupala, ranaru, pat vidrio, tan fea mami, afro, jarabacoa, and every haitian that post here,
go protest your own people; are you gonna blame DR for this also?
Like black people in America always blaming others, come on people stop it.

"The smuggler told the Dominican authorities that he charged no money for taking the kids into Dominican territory and that he supposedly did it with the consent of their parents who were “anguished” by the hunger they were suffering in Haiti."

And there are "only" 7 more million such persons willing to make the journey East. If the NGOs and Haitian elite/government were truly to help the Haitian poor they would stop focusing on the Dominican Solution for the misery that drives people to these options. Haiti will only regenerate its State and Nation via Haitian efforts and strong external help. External help will only come if the conditions exist for success in the eyes of the investors. Internal conditions must change to meet these demands, and that requires that Haitians stop doing unto Haitians the inhumane and delegitimizing actions that have created the abyss in Haiti. A strong and vibrant Haiti is in the Strong interest of the Dominican Republic. Josean states that the

msjersey you are talking like you were not black..

Dominican Republic exports/imports 650 million dollars to Haiti; those numbers would explode to billions of dollars if Haiti ever got its act together. Here's to hoping that Haiti finally takes the road toward modernity and prosperity for the sake of its people, both poor, middle class, and rich. Haitian identify with your people, and move it. as the commercial states: "Just Do It."

"Here's to hoping that Haiti finally takes the road toward modernity and prosperity for the sake of its people "

lol 50 years ago Haiti was more modern than you Dominican Republic.

How about us African-Dominicans? Oh that's right we just use Sammy Sosa Cream!

"Here's to hoping that Haiti finally takes the road toward modernity and prosperity for the sake of its people "

lol 50 years ago Haiti was more modern than you Dominican Republic.


Incognito,

Dude, it's 2010! Stop living in the past.

incognito,

let's just say Im one of the few white dominican left, we are dominguez from Gurabo Santiago, my
Grandmother is cousin with hipolito's mother but I DON'T LIKE THE GUY, and my my color does not buy me anything at the supermarket.

msjersey,
one of the few white dominican left - i didnt know such existed - Spanish, Italian, European yes
- real Dominican????? by the way you probably own the supermarket.

PITI

the sammy sosa cream is a good idea, maybe it will help you deal with your frustration.


PITI CAONABO

your way of thinking is one of the reasons why your country can't get out of the black hole is found today, your patethic idea that the dominican military and elite is responsible for the slavery and traffiking of haitian children demostrate what everybody here already know about you and the rest of the afro-lambones that contaminate this website, looking to blame DR and its people for your current state of affairs is the only thing that your ignorant mind can generate.

Don't waste your time posting excuses here, and blaming outsiders for a dilemma that is solely haitian, i mean how f**ck up you have to be to sell your own children into slavery, did your father sold you out to a dominican general? if he did you should be thankful not bitter, look how far you made it.

They do, is Hipolito Mejia Dominguez black?
THERE IS NO BLACK IN THAT FAMILY BUDDY.
Every time I go to DR, at the hotel they think Im PR or venezuelan.
.....but this is not about me, it's about haitian abusing haitian.

ScandiViking,

While I'm firmly opposed to any racist stand vis-å-vis the Haitian-Dominican problem. I stand firmly with the position that documentation and control of the cross-border areas needs to happen, and that the current situation is a very poor recipe for navigating the troubled waters between the two states. Having hundreds of thousands of undocumented people in a small nation is not long tolerable, and will generate violence and greater distrust over time. The NGOs and foreign governments should concentrate on helping Haiti achieve stability and viability and seek not to achieve such conditions via the Dominican Solution. Of course, there are many individuals on each side that benefit from the disorder, but the majority are ill-served by its continuity.

Atabey,
I'm all with you - both countries will benefit if better conditions comes along on the island - but that will take a whole lot of blood sweat and tears for everybody, hence the exploitation for the last few hundred years and still continue.

Hey msjersey we might be related i'm also from los Dominguez de Gurabo, Santiago and yeah most of my family are very light or white. from which part of Gurabo are you?

ScandiViking,

As I've stated before, the DR would stand to make an enormous amount of economic progress if Haiti ever got its act together. The DR has many advantages over other competitors for Haitian demand. And the quality issues will be addressed with a more modern trade system. And Haiti too would progress mightily by selling products, services and providing laborers for both side's expansionary needs. It's a win-win situation in the long-run, if both sides do their part. Here's to hoping that 2010 starts the process.

Hey ScandiViking, wtf are you trying to say? I'm a dominican, white and damn proud of it. Is there a black "real dominican" as you put it? The tainos were not black or white. Whites came from Europe and blacks from Africa. In other words, shut the f*** up!

Trujillo,
I see I hit the nail - you did read behind the lines. You said: Whites came from Europe and blacks from Africa. Incorrect - read: ...and blacks were forced over from Africa. Go ahead and read behind the lines again.

And they were brought from Africa after whites came from Europe first. Can you read between the lines too?

T,
And I suppose you will tell me the Tainos invited the Europeans over for a barbeque, and they got what they asked for?

Hey whats with this black, white mess every Dominican I know here in the states an in DR never made a issue of skin color just PROUD OF BEING DOMINICAN.

how come the authentic whiteS with anglo saxon surnameS : o'connor.nixon,clinton ,bush, are comfortable being white and do not have to prove or explain that they are white.
what makes someone white is is not only the white skin and features but the last name the country of origin .
if you think i am wrong introduce yourself to a kkk or a skin head rally and tell your name and your country of origin and report to us what how you were treated.
and if some wants to appear white so bad , with their money they can do so_eg_ machael jackson ------case closed.
ask a white hillbilly from rural mississippi chewing tobaco and screwing his daughter if he thinks a jew or the pope are whites,
cbelk99, yes, you are indeed white.
would you attend a kkk rally ????
i guess not.

etiennc01,

Great post my beloved nemeses, Great post!

etiennc01,
I never thought I would agree with you - but yes.

Who cares what some ignorant hillbilly or a southern redneck thinks the trueth is that for this people you have to be from the right religion, the right country and have the right surname but thats just stupid i bet their are more white people in Brazil then all southern states put together , genatically their are thousands of people who are white yet are label something different in the USA. Plus who cares what you are consirer as long as your Dominican and are doing the right thing for DR and society general your good no matter what color you are or how others see you.