Word: haitianization
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Diederich, who speaks Haitian Creole, was informed by telephone within minutes of a tense beating incident at the Krome Avenue detention center. Photographer Harry Mattison arrived in Liberty City just after police had shot a gun-wielding Cuban. Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter accompanied an undercover narcotics squad for a raid on the leaders of a $25 million drug ring. Washington Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, who joined the Miami staff to report on the billions in narcotics money washing over South Florida, talked with young men just back from high-speed runs in souped-up boats loaded with marijuana and cocaine...
...boatload of Haitian refugees founders in the Florida surf...
...near dawn and La Nativité, a rickety 30-ft. wooden sailboat crammed with 63 Haitian refugees, was bobbing to ward the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale. Winds of up to 30 m.p.h. lashed the sea, and waves as high as 5 ft. swept over the homemade vessel. Less than 60 yds. from land, La Nativité was suddenly swamped and its passengers spilled into the sea. Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging...
...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...
Indeed, no one questions that American immigration policy has been notoriously lax. Although the U.S. welcomes 270,000 legal immigrants yearly, at the President's discretion a flood of Cuban and Haitian refugees swelled that number to more than 800,000 last year. An additional 500,000 to 1 million entered the U.S. illegally, most of them along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico...