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...rest--the proverbial bad apples who only want a better life and face no special dangers at home--are the mere "economic migrants" who get sent home. The United States can only afford to absorb immigrants who face imminent danger, and most Haitian boat people simply...
...Cambridge today, if there's an overt victimof racism, I think it's the Haitian community andother linguistic minorities," she says. "They'reenrolled in schools where they're isolated inbilingual programs...
Three days after his repatriation from the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, a youth who identified himself only as Marcelin spoke briefly with TIME. He said that last Monday, within hours of returning to his family in Carrefour on the southern fringes of the Haitian capital, a soldier and a man in civilian clothes appeared at his door. Addressing him by name, they asked where he had been for the past two months. "Cap Haitien," Marcelin answered, referring to a city in north Haiti. "You were over there in Guantanamo, not Cap Haitien...
Such accounts by frightened returnees have done nothing to move the Bush Administration to reconsider its plan to ship home more than 10,000 Haitian boat people from Guantanamo. The dilemma for Washington remains acute: Are these people merely looking for a better life, or genuinely in danger of persecution...
Washington's decision emboldened Haiti's army officers to stall the docking of two U.S. ships carrying 508 boat people. "The military believes it can get the U.S. to soften up the embargo even more," says a leading Haitian businessman. Last week, as the commander of the country's armed forces elevated to a top post a former police chief who was fired by Aristide, the prospect of the deposed President's return seemed more remote than ever...