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<text id=91TT2778>
<title>
Dec. 16, 1991: American Notes:Refugees
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 39
American Notes
REFUGEES
Reprieve for The Haitians
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<p> Dancing and waving signs, hundreds of Haitian immigrants took
to the streets of Miami to celebrate a victory for their
countrymen last week. Rejecting the government's argument that
it should be allowed to ship back to Haiti the refugees who have
tried to reach Florida in sailboats in the past three months,
U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins extended his ban on
forcible repatriation of the boat people. Since September, when
the military ousted Haiti's first democratically elected
President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Coast Guard has
intercepted 6,442 Haitians. Most are now living in camps at the
U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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<p> Atkins ruled that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service had used inadequate methods to distinguish Haitians who
are genuine political refugees from economic migrants who are
not eligible for asylum. Attorneys for the Haitians found that
INS officers had insufficient knowledge of the grounds for
asylum and knew virtually nothing about political conditions in
Haiti. The government has been given a week to draw up new
procedures. Meanwhile, the seaborne exodus from Haiti shows no
signs of slowing down.
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