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Still they come, for Haiti is both a desperately poor country?its per capita income of $260 a year is among the world's lowest???and an oppressive dictatorship, ruled by Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. The Reagan Administration holds that nearly all the Haitian refugees are fleeing their country to escape poverty, not repression, and are thus not eligible to be admitted as political refugees. Others believe that many of the refugees are indeed entitled to political asylum, and cite evidence of those returned being beaten and tortured in Haitian prisons. As Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a Haitian...
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