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During the campaign, Clinton said he was "appalled" by the Bush Administration's policy of returning Haitian refugees before hearing their pleas for asylum. He called the policy cruel and immoral, and promised to reverse...
Clinton's concern is laudable. But by enforcing the blockade of the island and failing to effectively improve the Haitian political climate, the president consigns suffering Haitians to a precarious and dangerous existence and jeopardizes the very lives he hopes to save...
...SUNDAY, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER JESSE JACKSON began a fast in support of HIV- infected Haitians wishing to immigrate to the U.S. He was quickly joined by Olden Polynice, the Haitian-born center for the Detroit Pistons basketball team. But the growls of their stomachs fell on deaf ears. On Thursday the Senate voted to prevent people infected with the AIDS virus from immigrating to the U.S. The prohibition had been a matter of policy; the Senate action is a step toward making it law. "It was a meanspirited vote," says Jackson...
...vote was a setback not just for Jackson but for Bill Clinton as well. During the presidential campaign, Clinton said he'd change the policy. Jackson plans to continue his fast, which was inspired by the more than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling...
...open your gates when you're trying to control a disease within your borders," insists Republican Representative Tom DeLay of Texas. He is worried that the tab for infected Haitian refugees and other immigrants could land in the taxpayers' lap. According to the government's own estimate, the cost of treating the average AIDS patient from diagnosis to death is $100,000. "Our medical care, social-services net and free public education are a magnet for immigrants," argues Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a conservative lobbying group in Washington. "We can't bring people...