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BOSTON--About 20 Harvard students and Haitian Cantabrigians gathered yesterday in front of the JFK Building, home of the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) offices, to protest the detainment of HIV-positive Haitian refugees in Guantanamo...
...Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay have been on a hunger strike since January 29, said Paul E. Butler, a second year student at the Law School and member of the Black Law Students Association. The strike has been picked up by Jesse Jackson, who fasted for ten days, and by John Cardinal O'Connor, Butler said...
...Administration will boost refugee screening inside Haiti, and claims that its interception of boats just outside Haitian waters stems from a desire to save people from drowning. The Haitians' lawyers call this a "floating Berlin Wall" that bars refugees from all destinations. Why, the lawyers ask, can't the U.S. go back to screening the boat people to pick out those really fleeing persecution...
...city that is home to Haitian immigrants, proud Irish Catholics, transient academics and aging Brahmins, Cambridge has long been renowned for both its socioeconomic and racial diversity...
...hunger strike will, we hope, show [Clinton] that there are concerned citizens in the U.S. who expect Clinton to live up to his promises," said Juny E. Francois. Francois is a Haitian-American who is a second-year Law student who spoke at the rally...