DAJABÓN, Dominican Republic – It’s a breezy, partially cloudy day in March as Mayor Santiago Riverón puffs on a cigar while sitting outside his home on his sprawling ranch not far from the controversial border wall being built between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Riverón loves his country and takes pride in his Dominican heritage. And in an echo of anti-immigrant voices in the United States, he says Haitian people are “invading” his country. T
he reasons for the construction of the wall that borders this northwestern city of 17,000, he says, are to prevent people from poverty-stricken, gang-overrun Haiti from illegally entering, and to make a resounding political statement.
“It has been embraced by Dominicans as a patriotic symbol, and that cannot be changed,”
Riverón said. “That cannot be changed.”
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