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...repatriation from human rights advocates and religious organizations represent an "unprecedented assault" on executive power. Executive privilege is the last refuge of scoundrels--just ask Richard Nixon or Ollie North. The appeal to legality before morality, however, fits nicely with the refugee/migrant distinction. It clears the conscience--and Guantanamo Bay, where the refugees are waiting--without doing any good for the Haitians who face the Cedras welcoming committee, much less for Haiti itself...
Three days after his repatriation from the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, a youth who identified himself only as Marcelin spoke briefly with TIME. He said that last Monday, within hours of returning to his family in Carrefour on the southern fringes of the Haitian capital, a soldier and a man in civilian clothes appeared at his door. Addressing him by name, they asked where he had been for the past two months. "Cap Haitien," Marcelin answered, referring to a city in north Haiti. "You were over there in Guantanamo, not Cap Haitien...
Such accounts by frightened returnees have done nothing to move the Bush Administration to reconsider its plan to ship home more than 10,000 Haitian boat people from Guantanamo. The dilemma for Washington remains acute: Are these people merely looking for a better life, or genuinely in danger of persecution...
...Times, officials raised the remote prospect of military intervention. Yet at the same time, the Administration was petitioning the federal courts for permission to forcibly repatriate most of the boat people, who are currently residing in tents, ships and a huge aircraft hangar at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court gave its assent Friday night. A State Department spokesman said the government "will begin immediately repatriating Haitians...
...question now is how many of the boat people at Guantanamo will be returned to Haiti -- and how 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...