Dominican Republic readies border in wake of escalating violence from neighbouring Haiti The Dominican army was deployed on Monday (March 18) to the Haitian border with checkpoints to monitor the crossings as the political upheaval has rocked Haiti for weeks, yielding to the formation of a new government. The Jimani border crossing between the two Hispaniola island nations experienced a drop in the flux of Haitians going to the Dominican Republic, said a trader of the area, Arturo Trinado, and t