The UN says 1.4 million Haitians, more than 10% of the country, have fled their homes because of violence and instability.

Many have crossed the border to neighboring Dominican Republic, but there they live in fear and limbo.

200,000 have even been deported back to Haiti. As part of our ongoing series on border security around the world,

fellows from British Columbia

University's global reporting program visited the island and have this report as told by our

Ali Rogan.

These cattle cars have been modified to hold dozens of migrants at a time.

The Dominican Republic has ordered up trucks like this to roam the streets of towns and the countryside,

filling up every day with Haitian migrants.

In one of them, we met a young man named Kalear, who told us he came to the Dominican Republic to work construction.

It's wrong. It's wrong. All this time that we've been here, we've been going through misery, working for nothing,

working for a house to live in.

How is it that I'm in jail, without an arrest warrant, without having done anything?

This sweep in the Dominican Republic is part of a response to escalating gang violence

and economic instability across the border in Haiti,

which has escalated steadily since the assassination of Haiti's president in 2021.

Last September at a UN address, Dominican President Luis Abinadir pledged that his country would

not fall victim to the pressures

from the crisis in Haiti.

The instability in our neighboring country has put significant pressure on our own security.

President Abinadir fortified and expanded a border wall and pledged to round up 10,000 Haitians

every week to secure his country from undocumented

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