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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15WELCOME TO CUBA, BABY GITMO
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- By Sidney Urquhart
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- The officer was beaming like an expectant father getting
- ready to pass out cigars. Maybe even Cuban cigars. "In the next
- 48 hours we will have the first migrant Haitian born in
- Guantanamo, which we are all kind of looking forward to,"
- announced Brigadier General George H. Walls of the Marines last
- week. Right on schedule came the new arrival: a baby boy (6 lbs.
- 8 oz.) born to a 20-year-old Haitian woman. The infant raises
- a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian
- refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base
- entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely not, insists the State
- Department, explaining that the base is on Cuban territory that
- the U.S. only leases. General Walls has been instructed to
- refer to the Haitians as "migrants." More than 50 other Haitian
- women on the base are pregnant.
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