Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LISAS IS A DINKY, DROWSY TOWN IN the Dominican Republic, much like others that dot the small Caribbean country's northern coast. Chickens run in the one paved street; pigs root near the pink and green huts. At a roadside stand, a caldron of soup sits outside the door. A few men while away the afternoon hours playing dominoes in the shade of a nut tree...
Increasingly, when people want to go to America--illegally, that is--the Dominican Republic is where they go first. There are dozens of coastal towns just like Las Lisas where the chief industry--sometimes the sole industry--is illegal immigration. It is impossible to say exactly how many thousands of people arrive in the U.S. through the Dominican Republic each year, because official surveillance and interdiction are so spotty. The U.S. Border Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies made 4,364 arrests in the area last year, but that figure bears little relation to the number of people flooding...
What is clear is that the illegal traffic is growing, and it is international, with refugees arriving on this remote stretch of beach from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, even China and Japan. One telltale sign of the booming refugee trade: the Dominican Republic has become the largest importer of outboard engines in Latin America. Says a U.S. official: "There are boats every day taking people from all over the world into the U.S. through here...
...whites, by the way, as "white devils.") The Chinese were used as virtual slaves in the American West during the 19th century. In Egypt (which many African Americans embrace as the founding mother of black civilization), even people with moderately dark skins refer to themselves as "white." In the Dominican Republic, citizens despise Haitians with an appalling frankness. Racists? Try Russia. Visit Japan. Tour the world. Racism is an evil constant. America stacks up better than most societies on this subject...
...American authorities after the raid with an offer to help them damp down violence, and they had accepted. Fritz Joseph, a FRAPH member who has gone into hiding, has a less charitable interpretation. Referring to Constant and Michel Francois, the police chief who has fled into exile in the Dominican Republic, Joseph says, "They both cut deals for themselves and left everyone else who worked with them without protection...