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<text id=91TT2724>
<title>
Dec. 09, 1991: American Notes:Immigration
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 33
American Notes
IMMIGRATION
Welcome to The Camp
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<p> Responding to the needs of the more than 5,000 Haitians who
have fled their country in recent weeks to seek asylum in the
U.S., the military has begun constructing an emergency refugee
camp at the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. By the
end of last week a task force had set up some 135 tents to
shelter the 4,000 Haitians languishing aboard U.S. Coast Guard
and Navy vessels that had rescued them at sea.
</p>
<p> But the decision to build the camp may actually make
things worse: immigration officials suspect that hundreds more
Haitians will take to the sea in hopes of reaching Guantanamo.
A federal judge has temporarily barred U.S. authorities from
returning the refugees to Haiti pending a hearing this week
concerning the legality of such repatriation.
</p>
<p> Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts to resolve the Haiti crisis
got nowhere. Repeating its demand for an end to a U.S.-backed
economic embargo, the government that ousted President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide scheduled elections for Jan. 5 to replace him.
</p>
</body></article>
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