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<text id=93TT2334>
<title>
Jan. 18, 1993: Hungry for Freedom
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Jan. 18, 1993 Fighting Back: Spouse Abuse
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
NATION, Page 18
Hungry for Freedom
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<p>Haitian refugees protest a double standard in immigration policy
</p>
<p> After months behind barbed wire at Krome Detention center
outside Miami, some 160 Haitian refugees concluded that it was
time for a desperate gesture. They announced a hunger strike to
win their freedom, in an effort to protest what they see as an
immigration double standard. The Haitians watched angrily as 48
Cubans who hijacked an airliner out of Havana earlier this month
were released almost overnight. Hundreds of black Haitians--who risked a 600-mile sea voyage in rickety boats to flee an
often cruel military rule--have been detained for months while
their asylum claims are reviewed.
</p>
<p> Most of the hunger strikers abandoned their fast after
nine days, reputedly because of threats by immigration
officials. However, some 45 Haitians--mostly women--continued. "They don't want to live. They were victims in Haiti,
and now they're victims here too," said refugee lawyer Cheryl
Little.
</p>
<p> In an effort to forestall a massive refugee influx from
Haiti, both the old and new White House Administrations were
pushing for a political settlement between the military and
ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last week, however, the
boats kept coming: a record boatload of 352 Haitian refugees
sailed up the Miami River.
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