Word: helton
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Baker's casual dismissal of the refugees' claims is inadequate. The refugee project of the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights condemned the State Department's investigation as cursory and superficial. Arthur Helton, director of the refugee project, countered Baker by asserting that the government has an obligation to prove that the refugees' allegations are false before sending them back to potential danger...
...administration has even more reason to believe the Haitians. The U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted several boats of "double-backers," repatriated Haitians trying to leave their homeland for a second time. Documents released by Helton containing the statements of dozens of these "double-backers" contradict Baker's claim that Haitian authorities are not persecuting repatriated refugees...
...unlikely to have much impact on the boat-people traffic. (In its petition to the court, the government claimed improbably that 20,000 Haitians stand poised to flee.) "While a positive development, it has to be seen as an in-house rescue program for a select few," says Arthur Helton, director of the refugee program run by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York City. It also remains uncertain how an embassy operating with only a skeleton crew -- most staff members have been withdrawn since the coup -- will process all of the claims...
...plausible explanation is that the legalization program helped to augment -- not reduce -- the illicit flow. Even more telling, the influx is rising once again. Since December, the INS' monthly apprehension figures are averaging 50% higher than the year before. "It's getting back to business as usual," warns Arthur Helton, an immigration expert at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights...