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It was about 3 a.m. when immigration police began breaking down doors and dragging people away from a remote sugarcane cutters’ camp in the eastern Dominican Republic.
When the sun rose that morning, 17-year-old Arturo Mejia found himself crammed into a patrol wagon along with dozens of grizzled farm hands, pregnant women and children. They were told they were being trucked to neighboring Haiti.
As Donald Trump promises to deport migrants en masse from the US, and to target Haitians on temporary visas specifically, the Dominican Republic provides a glimpse of what that might look like.
The Caribbean nation of 11.3 million people says it has deported more than 330,000 Haitians this year, with the pace gaining steam after President Luis Abinader vowed in October to expel 10,000 people a week.
Haitians are being picked up on their way to school, hauled off buses and snatched from their workplaces in what has emerged as the largest deportation program per capita in the hemisphere.
From October through Dec. 10, at least 78,151 people were expelled from the country, immigration officials say. That would be the equivalent of the US shipping out 2.3 million people in two months — or, roughly, the entire population of Houston…
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