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Responding to the needs of the more than 5,000 Haitians who have fled their country in recent weeks to seek asylum in the U.S., the military has begun constructing an emergency refugee camp at the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. By the end of last week a task force had set up some 135 tents to shelter the 4,000 Haitians languishing aboard U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels that had rescued them...
...Bush Administration to suspend the forced repatriations of the boat people and permit them to remain in the U.S. until conditions in Haiti improve and the government is restored. But the President, seeking to dissuade thousands more Haitians from taking to the water in the hope of gaining asylum, insisted that the massive interception of the boat people that started last month must continue. Allowing the boat people to enter the U.S., he warned, would only lead more Haitians to risk their lives in the dangerous journey...
...Administration's stance on the boat people reflects long-standing immigration policies. Like most nations, the U.S. divides would-be refugees into two groups, and treats each very differently. Those with a "well-founded fear of persecution" because of their race, religion or political views are granted political asylum. But the U.S. lumps all except a microscopic number of Haitians into the category of "economic migrants," maintaining that because they are merely fleeing from poverty and generalized chaos and violence, they do not qualify for resident status. "In Haiti people are still free to practice their religion and to hold...
...very happy with the situation. But this is the reality, and I have to live with it. I could have been given asylum in the Soviet Union -- I have friends there -- but I wanted to live in Germany. My parents, my brother and I $ left for 11 years during the Nazi era. I did not want to be an emigre for a second time...
...past 16 years 63,000 boat people have fled Vietnam to seek asylum in Hong Kong. Unable to accommodate them in overcrowded detention centers, the colony wants to send back all who do not qualify as bona fide refugees under U.N. guidelines. Last week, after two years of negotiations, Britain and Vietnam signed a statement of understanding in which Hanoi agreed to the return of nonpolitical refugees...