Mourning supersede on Mayor de Blasio at Dominican Day Parade for comments on Deportations of Haitians

Mayor de Blasio was booed at Sunday’s Dominican Day Parade by people angry he slammed the country’s government for wanting to expel ethnic Haitians.

 

“He talks too much,” said heckler Francisco Bens, 53, of Brooklyn, who greeted de Blasio with scattered boos along the Sixth Ave. parade route. “He doesn’t like the Dominican Republic. ... He says Dominicans don’t like black people. That’s not true.”

 

De Blasio hosted a press conference in June to condemn the looming deportations of thousands of people of Haitian descent from the Dominican Republic.

“It is clearly an illegal act. It is an immoral act. It is a racist act by the Dominican government,” he said at the time.

While he was backed by both Dominican and Haitian elected officials, he drew the ire of Dominican-Americans.

 

Deyanira Martinez, 45, of Manhattan, called de Blasio a “traitor.”

“We all voted for you!” she said.

De Blasio wouldn’t answer questions Sunday, but last week he stood by his comments and said the international opposition to the Dominican government’s policies had a positive impact.

“If that situation is improving in the Dominican Republic, it’s because there was a public outcry. And I’m very comfortable with the fact that that had to be called out,” he said.