Tag: Dominican
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Haiti condemns Dominican Republic’s plan to deport 10,000 migrants weekly
SANTO DOMINGO/PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s foreign minister on Monday blasted a policy announced last week by the neighboring Dominican Republic to deport tens of thousands of migrants back to Haiti, where gang violence is fueling a devastating humanitarian crisis. “The brutal scenes of roundups and deportations that we are witnessing are an affront to human dignity,” Haitian…
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Karl-Anthony Towns talks about Dominican roots, social justice work
It’s been quite a year for NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns. This week it became official that Towns, the Minnesota Timberwolves 7-foot center/forward, will be playing for the New York Knicks. And in May, KAT — as he’s known — was named the 2023-24 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion “for his voting rights advocacy as well…