‘Always hiding’: Haitian labourers fear Dominican deportation push

MAO, Dominican Republic (AFP) -- Agamise Cheranfant hides as soon as he finishes his work at a banana plantation in the Dominican Republic. Like many others, he is Haitian, undocumented, and lives in constant fear of deportation. Owners of farms, construction companies and tourism businesses are also nervous -- they rely on Haitian labourers to work long days under the scorching sun. On the banana plantations in Mao, in the country's northwest, most of the workers are from Haiti, which shares an i...