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- NATION, Page 33American NotesIMMIGRATIONWelcome to The Camp
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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