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...hundreds, Haitian boat people in search of asylum in the U.S. were delivered by Coast Guard cutters back to Port-au-Prince. Each was fingerprinted and photographed by local immigration officers. Just routine procedure, police assured scores of foreign journalists. But the swiftness with which the returnees melted into the population suggested that these Haitians were more than a little skeptical -- perhaps with good cause...
...open door. While Administration officials acknowledge that the | political climate in Haiti has worsened since the Sept. 30 coup that deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they maintain that most of the boat people are economic migrants whose free-floating fears of persecution are not grounds enough for asylum. Backed by a Jan. 31 Supreme Court decision, little can now deter the Administration's plan to empty the detention camps, save a public outcry...
...drubbing Jimmy Carter took in 1980 from Florida voters after the Mariel boat lift, which settled some 125,000 Cubans in the U.S., mostly in Miami. The state, which already houses 80% of the 1,402 Haitians who have been let in to make their case for political asylum, can expect to be hard hit by further waves of refugees. Yet last week the repatriations drew fire from Florida politicians, including Senator Connie Mack, a conservative Republican, who charged that the policy was "based on crisis management instead of the principle of freedom...
While awaiting the court's ruling, the State Department unveiled a new policy: Haitians will now be permitted to apply for asylum at the U.S. embassy in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Unless the rules are eased, the program will be restricted to just 300 Haitians over the next eight months, and it will confine admission to former political prisoners and applicants who are in "imminent danger" of persecution...
...fast. Since Jan. 19, the Coast Guard has hauled 6,235 boat people to safety, bringing the total number of post-coup Haitian refugees to 14,610. Of those, almost one-quarter have been found by officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to have a "plausible claim" for asylum, which means they will be permitted to enter the U.S. and present further evidence. Among the most recent boat people, almost three-quarters made...