Word: krome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, authorities were mystified about the voyage of La Nativité. Two of the survivors, all of whom were brought to Miami's Krome Ave nue North Detention Center, where 1,300 other Haitian refugees are being held, first claimed they had come via the Bahama Islands. They left Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti on Aug. 26, they said, and spent the next 31 days sailing through the Bahamas; they subsisted by catching crabs to eat and licking the rainfall off leaves, until finally setting off Oct. 18 on the last leg of their journey...
...young man, handsome but for some missing teeth, is resolute. "If they mean to return me to Haiti, they can shoot me, they can kill me, I am not going back," he declares. "I am not going back to that life of nothing." The man is an inmate at Krome Avenue North Detention Center, in Dade County, Fla., a federal compound of tents and concrete barracks that holds 1,160 of his countrymen. They are among 13,000 Haitians who had the misfortune to arrive in the U.S. after Oct. 10, the Carter Administration's cut off date...
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...
...hemisphere are there so many people so poor as in Haiti (pop. 6 million; per capita income, less than $300), and thus so eager to scrape together as much as $1,500 for the trip to Florida. The passage is usually unpleasant, sometimes fatal. Raymond Antoine, 46, is a Krome Avenue North inmate who spent five weeks in a small boat with 148 fellow Haitians. Asked why he persevered, he said, "Misė, miseė [Poverty, poverty!] My eight children are starving. I have to get work, money to feed them from here...