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...officer was beaming like an expectant father getting ready to pass out cigars. Maybe even Cuban cigars. "In the next 48 hours we will have the first migrant Haitian born in Guantanamo, which we are all kind of looking forward to," announced Brigadier General George H. Walls of the Marines last week. Right on schedule came the new arrival: a baby boy (6 lbs. 8 oz.) born to a 20-year-old Haitian woman. The infant raises a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely...
...Clyde Atkins extended his ban on forcible repatriation of the boat people. Since September, when the military ousted Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 6,442 Haitians. Most are now living in camps at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
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...
...decision to build the camp may actually make things worse: immigration officials suspect that hundreds more Haitians will take to the sea in hopes of reaching Guantanamo. A federal judge has temporarily barred U.S. authorities from returning the refugees to Haiti pending a hearing this week concerning the legality of such repatriation...
...those taken into custody by the Coast Guard, 538 have been shipped back to Haiti, 350 have been sent to camps in four Caribbean nations, and more than 2,300 are aboard Coast Guard cutters or have been transferred to U.S. troop ships and the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. According to Coast Guardsmen who took part in the rescue effort, many of the fleeing Haitians' boats are no better than floating coffins. Many of the passengers are so seasick, hungry and dehydrated that they cannot answer the questions put to them by overworked immigration officers stationed...