BUT WHO'S GOING TO PICK THE COTTON?

That's always the first thing I think when I hear some country is about kick out the folk that they haven't been half-paying for their labor.

That is, who is going to be picking the cotton, the fruit or in this case the sugar cane if you kick your quasi-foreign, quasi-slave labor force out?

That is, who is going to be left to stand out there in the hot sun, sweating where it's 150 degrees in the shade when you are lucky enough to find it, where people look at you funny if need a bathroom break, while getting your hands all scratched up and bleeding while doing this work?

Who is going to be doing the dirty work once the modern day slaves are gone?
Compare: The United States economy might well collapse if, all of a sudden, all the cheap-labor illegal immigrants stopped picking fruit etc for 1/4 of the dollars that the average United States Citizen would pick it for. The cleaning up behind foreign visitors to United States hotels in California is also done by undocumented workers at significant rates. These two things taken together, and other industries as well, in California produces and brings in a lot of dollars for the entire U.S. economy.

And illegal immigrants are sizable contributors to a huge chunk of that in California. If they were to suddenly disappear, California would probably feel it first. But California wouldn't feel it alone.

I might add that I can't see how this source of new-slave labor isn't making the people born poor here in the U.S. remain poor. But pitting one powerless group against another is a story for another time.

However,  I do know the political gamesters know how dependent we are on keeping a certain percentage of illegal immigrants here in the U.S. while desperately illegal so that they will work for peanuts. The same gamesters that trot them out just before every election as the *tax drainers* are probably their main employers.

I know very little about the Dominican Republic, but I'm still wondering why the same kind of limitations aren't in place there. That is, I'm trying to figure out why the Dominican Republic isn't using the same play book.

Then again, maybe it is.

Compare Kuwait: There were a series of news stories after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait (which was used as an excuse to invade Iraq the first time). These stories implied that every single natural born citizen in Kuwait was a millionaire because of the country's oil resources. While that's probably not literally true, it still brought the same question to mind:

So, who's picking the cotton? That is, if everybody in Kuwait is rich, then who is cleaning the toilets etc.

The answer turned out to be, "The poor people from the country next door."

Kuwait is tiny. The poor or middle class nor poor-ER people in the country next door, apparently go across the border to do the cooking and the cleaning and cotton picking (whatever passes for cotton picking there - maybe oil rig cleaning, whatever). And when they are done at their jobs, they take their behinds back across the border and go home.

So now I'm wondering if that's what the D.R. has in mind for  Haitians. Or do they have enough of their own poor to pick the cotton (a.k.a the sugar cane) If they do will they going to pay "their own" non-black people higher wagers? Is there another identifiable group of Dominicans that middle class or better Dominicans want to keep as an underclass?

Will the D.R.  take the same kind of international hit that South Africa took for this kind of racist bull?

The thing I know for sure is this.  We have the internet now. We can find out what comes from there then not buy it.

South Africa got the message once the world focused their attention on it and withdrew respect and money, both.

South Carolina is beginning to see the writing on the financial wall in regards to THAT FLAG.

In regards to the Dominican Republic I say, "Play it again, Sam" because I think I know who's going to be picking the cotton.

I think the people picking the cotton today are going to be the same people picking the cotton tomorrow, only tomorrow they'll be picking it for less money.

Once these black people lose their citizenship, are forced to go to Haiti, then find there is no work, what else are they going to do but go back across the border in the Dominican Republic in order to work?

Only once they go back across the border they'll be working as illegal immigrants.  

Unless the Dominican Republic has decided to stop growing so much sugar cane because the demand has dropped off or they found a machine to work the sugar cane better, I think the Dominican Republic might have magically created themselves a gift that keeps on giving - illegal immigrants.
Again, this is part of a formula that we've seen work up close and personal here in the U.S. 

Still, it could be the D.R. wants "their own" lighter-skinned multi-generational Dominicans to have the jobs. It could be that the government is not as racist as I suppose or racist in a way different from the U.S. It could be that they are not creating cheap 21st century slave labor on purpose. 

But regardless of what the D.R. government is planning, we know that that's exactly what is going to happen, don't we? Aren't the ex-citizens, no longer Black Dominicans, forced into Haiti, going to return to their homes in the Dominican Republic as illegal immigrants to work for 1/2 the money?  If there's no work in Haiti, what other options do they have?

Just a theory.

I guess I simply find it hard to believe that someone did not create this desperation with no plans to exploit it.
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Don't buy anything that comes from the Dominican Republic until we figure out what's going on and why.

Don't travel in the Dominican Republic until we figure out what's going on and why.


http://www.ijrcenter.org/2014/10/28/in-the-case-of-dominican-and-haitian-people-expelled-v-the-dominican-republic-iacthr-finds-multitude-of-human-rights-violations/


http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/06/dominican_republic_must_decide_whether_to_expel_haitian_families_who_did.html
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/cnrint/Agro/PDFfiles/HaitiCaseStudy041903.pdf
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Wouldn't it be funny if Haiti refused to take the black Dominicans. I mean, the D.R. is kicking out black people, ethnic Haitians, born in the Dominican Republican. They are Dominicans. Who says Haiti has to take them?  If they had to go places other than Haiti, and there was no migrant worker source, could that create a labor shortage in the Dominican Republic?

Just dreaming of ways this bites the D.R. on the butt. Hard.