Word: haitianize
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...work for honest lawyers, who can earn $70,000 a year or more and who often contribute free legal services to the neediest. Some are respected human rights attorneys, like Miami's Ira Kurzban, who besides conducting his regular private practice has given much time free to defend Haitian boat people. Complains A.I.L.A. Executive Director Warren Leiden: "There's a bad rap against immigration attorneys...
There are now large ghettos within ghettos. Haitians, about half of them in the U.S. illegally, are concentrated in the heart of Brooklyn's black area in a quarter they call La Saline, after the Port au Prince neighborhood from which many came. Hand-lettered French signs are pasted on walls and hung uncertainly from storefronts. Creole patois burbles everywhere. One hot afternoon on Nostrand Avenue recently, the Impeccable barber shop was crowded. Men had gathered under the fans for companionship, a bit of gossip, not haircuts. "We Haitians love to get together," says the owner of a neighborhood restaurant...
...designation of the city as a sanctuary for E1 Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Haitian refugees. In addition to opening all public schools and hospitals for refugees, the city council ordered municipal employees not to cooperate with federal authorities seeking to extradite political refugees...
...nation looked on last night as the Cambridge City Council heard personal stories of persecution, in its effort to decide a resolution which would affect the city's 5000 Central American and Haitian refugees...
Wolf said her experience of 40-year ago mirrored the plight of the more than twenty-five Haitian and Salvadoran refugees who mingled in the crowd outside...