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WILL THE LAST AMERICAN LEAVING SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG So reads a bumper sticker in Miami. It is one small sign of Floridians' growing anger about the 150,000 Cuban and Haitian refugees who have beached on their state's shores since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Although the care of undocumented aliens from the Caribbean is a federal responsibility, the burden of supporting them has fallen mostly on Florida, and Governor Robert Graham has had enough of it. He is suing the Federal Government for failure to curtail immigration into South Florida. Says he: "The status...
Last week eleven Krome Avenue North residents were herded through a quick immigration hearing in Miami, then put on a jet back to Port-au-Prince. They were the first to be sent home under a new U.S. policy of deporting all Haitians who have arrived illegally since mid-May. (Last year more than 20,000 entered the U.S. legitimately.) Seventy-six more Haitians have been found similarly unacceptable and ordered to leave, but await judicial review of their cases, which will begin this week. If the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way-as a Cabinet task force will...
...immediate intention of the new, firmer measures is to rid the U.S. of the most recently arrived Haitian illegals, but officials also hope to discourage would-be immigrants still in Haiti. Explains an INS staff member: "We can't be home to the world's poor. It's as simple as that...
...contends that such motives have nothing to do with politics, that Haiti's once notorious government repression has subsided in the past decade and the immigrants will probably not be punished as they are returned. Indeed, the Haitian authorities are making no real effort to halt the exodus: the 400,000-member exile community in the U.S. sends perhaps $100 million back to their families on the island every year, and the escape route tempers unemployment and hopelessness...
While nearly all Americans would -and should-abhor such actions, many are concerned that the nation is being overrun with foreigners. The teeming boatloads of Cuban and Haitian refugees who landed on Florida's shores last year only heightened those concerns. Democratic Senator Walter Huddleston of Kentucky estimates that, if present trends continue, immigration will add at least 35 million people to the current U.S. population of 229 million by the year 2000. "Those 35 million people will need land, water, energy and food," complains Huddleston. "Where are we going to find those resources, unless we ask our citizens...