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...refugees came to Boston from Florida after the great influx of Cubans there prompted the State Department to make a "massive resettlement effort outside of Florida," Art Brill, a spokesman for the Cuban-Haitian task force of the State Department, said yesterday...
Last fall Docouto called together members of Hispanic, Haitian, Portuguese, health and women's organizations to press for more interpreters. The Coalition for Interpreters Now has held discussions on the shortage and on September 8 presented its grievances to the City Council...
...lack of interpreters at the hospital has forced many Haitian residents to go to Dorchester to seek Creole-speaking doctors, Julian Saintelot, a case worker at the Cambridge Haitian-American Association, said yesterday...
...York City, by tradition the largest and most famous immigrant gateway to the New World, now has 80,000 children in bilingual classes. About 60,000 are Spanish. Among the nine other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean and Russian. Naturally, in the shadow of Ellis Island, there are many nostalgic references to the melting pot and the role of the American high school in giving incoming foreigners their first shared experience of the American way of life. Proponents argue that what was best for grandfather is not good enough for immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather...
Papier-mâché roses decked the dusty streets of the capital. Free bouillon and clairin-soup and rum-were distributed to the populace. But for most Haitians there was little to celebrate. Not only is the island nation the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, but for 22 years it has chafed under a succession of Duvalier dictatorships. Accordingly, some 55,000 Haitian "boat people" have made the 800-mile crossing to Florida, most of them as illegal immigrants. Unlike the Cubans recently arrived, the Haitians do not enjoy the status of political refugees...