batey

Spending her entire life fighting to secure citizenship and human rights for Dominicans born of Haitian parents, Sonial Pierre passed a way last sunday. Raised in the Dominican Republic in dirt-floor barrack for migrant workers in a Batey, Ms. Pierre has been constantly denouncing what she sees as massive abuses in the Dominican Republic against people of Haitian descent and their children

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Here is a picture of several Haitian nationals in the process of loading a truck in a sugar cane field. The Haitians are often working form sun rise to sunset in these batey field as sugar cane worker. This a job that no too many Dominicans want to do themselves

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Here is a picture of A Haitians immigrant working in a field of sugar cane in Batey. Haitians often travel to their neighboring country Dominican Republic to work as sugar cane worker. They earn very mininal amount of money for this back breaking job

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Here is a picture of several haitians lining on the road in a Dominican road. They are waiting for a bus that is supposed to take them to a Sugar Cane field in Batey to spend the day working

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