Dominicans protest government’s plan to regularize Haitian immigrants
Officials say over 80,000 Haitian students have entered the public school system in recent years, and that Haitian women make up the majority of births in the country — placing added pressure on the national health budget.
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00:00Hundreds of protesters gathered outside National Congress in Santo Domingo to protest a proposed government plan to regularize undocumented foreign workers, most of whom are Aisian.
00:13Why are business owners advocating for a new regularization of Aisians? Because the way they don't pay taxes. You don't have to insure them. They prefer to Aisianize the country than pay a decent wage to the Dominican people, and we cannot allow that.
00:32Protesters carried signs reading, we don't want to be foreigners in our country, and no more Aisian regulation. Currently, an estimated 500,000 Aisians live in the Dominican Republic, which has a population of around 11 million.
00:47It's not that we're xenophobic. We're just tired of Dominicans being denied opportunities that are given to Aisians.
00:54The Dominican government has pledged to deport up to 10,000 undocumented Aisians per week, claiming the influx as strained public services.
