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Most of the Haitian boat people live in northeast Miami's "Little Haiti," working as maids, dishwashers, gas-station attendants and in other unskilled jobs. The U.S. has so far refused to regard them as political refugees, though their reasons for leaving Haiti sound similar to those of the Cuban refugees; both groups cite political persecution and extreme poverty. Carter said he was "greatly concerned" about the Haitians and had ordered federal agencies to "treat the Haitians in the same exact humane manner as we treat Cubans...
...refugees than any other country. Equally as troubling, the "open arms" policy toward the Cubans inevitably angered other nationalities seeking entry into the U.S. The most glaring inequity was between the ready admittance of the Cubans and the very slow processing of an equally large number of poverty-stricken Haitians who have also been making their way to Florida. Some 30,000 Haitian refugees have come to the U.S., mostly in a slow and relatively unnoticed trickle over the past ten years. About 13,000 have applied for refugee status. Very few have been accepted. Nearly all face possible deportation...
Refugees were also leaving another Caribbean nation last week. Wading ashore from battered open skiffs, some 1,000 Haitians landed on southern Florida's beaches and were promptly detained as illegal immigrants. They joined a total of more than 3,000 such Haitian "boat people" who have been held so far this year. Says Miami's immigration and naturalization district director, Raymond Morris: "We were totally unprepared. This looks like a mass migration...
Each day the Colombian Red Cross showed up to deliver food and, ever so tidily, take away the garbage. Inside, life went on as "in a hotel," according to a Colombian government official. The Haitian Ambassador telephoned his girlfriend back in Port-au-Prince. The Egyptian Ambassador ordered, and received, kibbi, his favorite dish, in addition to the Koran. The papal nuncio, Monsignor Angelo Acerbi, celebrated Mass twice a day, using sacramental wine and a crucifix that the terrorists had allowed the Red Cross to deliver...
...mother superior of the Society of St. Margaret in Boston. "She is a fantastic woman," said Haitian Composer Ferrere Laguerre. "Very persistent, with great persuasive powers...