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...Clinton Administration argues that as a rule, Haitian boat people are fleeing poverty, not political persecution. When he debarked from Dieu Veut, Jonas Esterlin, 22, found it hard to feel that way. Spotted by police as soon as the Coast Guard cutter tied up, he was ordered to a separate area on the docks. There, he says, he was pistol-whipped in the head and jabbed with an electric cattle prod. "The police kept yelling that we had fled to show support for Aristide," Esterlin recalls, "and that we should all be killed." Terrified, he broke and ran. Police were...
Renaldo Duval was luckier -- at least in the beginning. Financing his escape by selling a small house and a plot of land on the edge of the village, he established for himself a nest egg of 3,000 Haitian gourdes (about $100). Sent back in March, he bought a place on another boat. When he was returned a second time, he still had enough cash for yet another try. But to no avail. Broke, Duval wanders aimlessly around the village, destitute and bitter. "It would have been better for them to kill me there than to force me back here...
...ruling, the Supreme Court upheld a controversial practice of both the Bush and Clinton administrations -- picking up Haitian refugees in % international waters and returning them home. Only Harry Blackmun dissented from the court's reasoning that the pertinent U.S. laws and treaties, which require a hearing at which refugees can argue that they are fleeing political persecution, apply only to refugees who set foot on U.S. shores -- not those stopped...
...infected Haitian refugees and family members begin hunger strike to protest detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For most, strike ends in mid-March. Release ordered June...
...alliances and oppositions. Liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy and Conservative Democrat Richard Lamm favor restricting immigration, as does archconservative Republican Pat Buchanan. Polls by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank, found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language for official business. But their opponents...