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00:00We want to go to our country, but of course, I was born in the Dominican Republic, but I am Haitian, I am leaving.
00:13If they don't let us go, we are not going.
00:16I have hidden in my house, looking at the landscape.
00:24They want to enter Matamorquiti, but they can't.
00:26You are here, inside. Who can touch you? You are in your country.
00:30You are in your country. You didn't have to put barriers, you had to enter.
00:34We don't eat people.
00:36Look, that's my granddaughter and she's Dominican.
00:39That's my grandson and he's Dominican.
00:41Here lives the Dominican house.
00:43That's the Dominican house, that's the Dominican house.
00:46We are not like people, as they think and as they say.
00:50This is worse than the La Rio hotel.
00:52An Indian girl was lost, and they still haven't been able to find her.
00:58And yet they keep harassing these poor Haitians who are working.
01:03What's your name?
01:04My name is Tierra Mar.
01:07Good afternoon, sir.
01:08I like that you are here today, like today.
01:10Listen, what's going on?
01:11Here, they told them, they said, the property of a Dominican city.
01:1690% of what they are doing here are the Dominicans.
01:20They themselves come to break the door, throwing stones.
01:23That's a stain.
01:24That's a stain.
01:25The stains come pacific to defend their own flag.
01:29The flag of the Dominican Republic.
01:31Excellent, I liked what they were doing yesterday.
01:33I liked it a lot.
01:34Do you think it's fair for a person to put a glass window in their house?
01:38They went to break the window with stones.
01:40The Dominicans started yesterday?
01:42Yesterday, yesterday.
01:43And they themselves went in there throwing stones.
01:47Is it a right?
01:48It's not good.
01:49I like what they did yesterday.
01:51For what reason?
01:52They are claiming their right.
01:54The Dominican Republic, their country.
01:56What's going on?
01:58To all the bad guys, the Haitians.
02:0190% of the idiots say that the Haitians.
02:04And it's a lie.
02:05Who are we killing here?
02:07The police.
02:08Enter here in Bavaro.
02:09Who are we killing here?
02:10Day, night, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the morning.
02:13I am a worker.
02:14I am a construction teacher.
02:16I have been living here for 29 years in the Dominican Republic.
02:20I can't walk sometimes.
02:21I have my passport and I can't walk.
02:23For what reason?
02:24I don't have a visa.
02:25How am I going to work?
02:27Illegally.
02:28In construction.
02:29I don't have the right to work.
02:30If I have a passport and I don't have a visa, how am I going to work?
02:33Do you have a work permit?
02:34I don't even have a permit.
02:36I don't have a permit.
02:37And what do they ask you to solve this situation?
02:39In the situation that I want them to solve,
02:42to see if the Haitians who are working here in the Dominican Republic,
02:4690% of Haitians who have passports and can't work,
02:49give us a permit.
02:51That we work illegally.
02:53That we work illegally.
02:54If we can't get a paper,
02:56if we can't get a paper,
02:57how are we going to work?
02:59There is a dead Haitian there,
03:02there in Matamorquitos.
03:04If you want, I'll go with you.
03:06They don't want to take him out because they are afraid.
03:09He died from the heart.
03:12They are afraid that the Dominicans will kill him
03:15because there are too many guards.
03:17There is a dead Haitian there.
03:19And no one wants to face him because they are afraid of the Haitians.
03:23So what happens?
03:25When something happens here in Matamorquitos,
03:30in the Monteverde sector,
03:31they are the Haitians.
03:33Yesterday there was an ice patch.
03:34The ice patch was excellent.
03:35Who did this?
03:36The police.
03:39The military,
03:40the Dominicans throwing stones at us Haitians.
03:44And we are very calm, happy.
03:46The police come here whenever they want.
03:48At 12 at night the police are here.
03:50At 1 in the morning they are here with us.
03:51Is the Haitian coming here?
03:52Normal.
03:53They come to do their normal job.
03:55They don't come to work, they come to rob.
03:57They come to break into other people's houses to get what is inside.
04:00That's bad.
04:01That's not right.
04:02My name is Papo. Papo what? Papo Figueroa. Thank you, Papo.
04:07Let's talk now with another person who lives in Matamorquitos, a Dominican.
04:12Dominicans who want to talk to these media.
04:16They say it was an abuse. How do you see it?
04:19Well, they came in here yesterday, but it was a total abuse that they did.
04:22They didn't come in to do a decent march as they wanted, as they expected.
04:26They grabbed what they had and were about to enter the house and steal what they had.
04:30They say there are no Dominicans here, but there are a lot of Dominicans here.
04:33A lot of them have a lot of houses.
04:35Look, yesterday I have a house over there and they broke it to pieces.
04:38They were throwing stones like that.
04:40So that can't be done. If they are going to do a march, they have to do it decently, as it should be.
04:45The police had to take it out of here, from the middle of the neighborhood.
04:49So they came to access it?
04:51Of course, they came to access it, to throw stones.
04:53Everywhere they were throwing stones.
04:55Look, all those movies out there, so damaged, they threw it out last night.
04:57With a group of criminals throwing stones.
04:59It can't be like that.
05:01What they say is that there is a lot of violence, that the police don't come in, is that true?
05:05No, here the Haitians don't abuse anyone.
05:07They go to fight, they fight themselves for some bad business they do.
05:10But the Haitians live well here.
05:12There are no problems with them here.
05:14The police come in every day.
05:16The police come in here at any time.
05:18Here at 9-11, every now and then, people are looking for people and they come directly.
05:22The police don't hurt them here.
05:24With this type of march, can the problem of irregular migration be solved?
05:27It can be solved, but not like this, with the violence that is going on.
05:31Because the thing is, how can I tell you?
05:33If the government wants the person to have his document, he has to put his power.
05:37Because, how can I tell you?
05:39We are not the ones who bring the black people.
05:41Who are the ones who bring them?
05:43Migration, they say they catch it, and they catch it in a little while.
05:46Like two days later, they are here again.
05:48It's not our fault.
05:50For them, it was coming to tear down the houses here.
05:52They say that Haitians live here.
05:54How Haitians? Thousands of Dominicans live here.
05:57Pablo, Pablo Kelly Alcántara.
05:59Thank you, Pablo.
06:01We are going to talk to a lady here.
06:03Look, look, I have a house without a tenant.
06:08The Dominicans want to tear down the house.
06:11Abuse one, if you can't abuse one like that.
06:13Because now in Haiti, everyone knows, neither Dominicans nor Haitians,
06:17not even the whole country knows that there is no visa.
06:19If I have a passport and I don't have a visa, do I want to go?
06:22I have five children here.
06:25Two boys, two girls, and one girl.
06:31I am a nation here, I have no papers, I have no passports.
06:34But I am a man, I was the one who declared it.
06:36As a Dominican, I am going to talk to the boys.
06:38How are we going to do it?
06:40Thank God, the migrants never came with me.
06:44But the others, the Haitians work hard.
06:47They work, and the Haitians don't do it.
06:49The Dominicans can't do it.
06:51Everyone works badly, and the Haitians don't want to do it.
06:54If I have a business there, the Haitians leave.
06:57Neither Dominicans nor Haitians.
06:59They don't want to sell.
07:01Everyone wants to make a living.
07:03You don't agree with that kind of march?
07:05Haiti is bad, Haiti is bad.
07:07My country is not true.
07:08No one can leave the country.
07:10I came to make a living here.
07:12I want to be calm, to make a living.
07:15I have many children, 36 here, I was born here.
07:18I am an old man here.
07:20I can't go to Haiti, I have my country, I can't go.
07:22Because it's bad.
07:24You can't go back to your country?
07:26Well, I don't know.
07:28No, I can't say that.
07:30I can't say that.
07:32Tell me your name.
07:33Maria Gringa Batista.