Word: haitianize
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...hypocritical, so mean. What's happened to America?" Mareus Aggee asked from the back of his English class in Miami's Little Haiti. Like the dozen Haitian refugees alongside him, Aggee, 28, was bewildered. President Bush had ordered U.S. Coast Guard cutters to turn back all Haitian boat people at sea, even those fearing retaliation by the island's renegade eight-month- old military regime. "Bush must know these people will be persecuted, even shot at, when they return home. Has he no heart...
Bush seems haunted by Jimmy Carter's experience with the 1980 Mariel boatlift, during which 124,815 Cubans washed up on Florida's shores -- and the Democratic President lost the election. "Mariel definitely left a shadow. Washington has been nervous all year about the Haitian influx," contends Father Richard Ryscavage, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Office of Migration and Refugee Services, which provides social and legal services to some 3,500 Haitian refugees...
White House campaign officials insist Bush did not let election-year politics dictate his decision, but Ira Kurzban, lawyer for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, believes otherwise. "The Haiti policy," he says, "plays to the basest part of the Republican Party, the anti-alien group, the racists, to keep them from crossing over to Ross Perot...
...Miami, the long-standing mecca for both Cuban and Haitian refugees, the locals seem more willing than the average American to accept the newcomers. Some 57% favor giving temporary refuge to the Haitians, according to a recent Mason-Dixon Florida poll. "Much as it strains our resources," says Mayor Xavier Suarez, a Cuban immigrant himself, "we should put both Haitians and Cubans at the top of the list for admission...
...Washington doesn't welcome the Haitian boat people...