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- <text id=93TT1175>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: "Floating Berlin Wall"
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 16
- "Floating Berlin Wall"
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The White House defends sending Haitian boat people back home
- </p>
- <p> Last may candidate Clinton was "Appalled" by George Bush's
- decision to force every boatload of fleeing Haitians back to
- the thugs in charge of their country, without checking to see
- if anyone on board qualified for political asylum under a
- treaty the U.S. signed. But President Clinton now backs
- forcible return, and a government lawyer (a Bush holdover)
- vigorously argued for it last week before the Supreme Court.
- This broken promise has infuriated black leaders and
- human-rights lawyers. But Clinton fears that an armada of poor
- blacks will wash up on Florida.
- </p>
- <p> The Administration will boost refugee screening inside
- Haiti, and claims that its interception of boats just outside
- Haitian waters stems from a desire to save people from
- drowning. The Haitians' lawyers call this a "floating Berlin
- Wall" that bars refugees from all destinations. Why, the lawyers
- ask, can't the U.S. go back to screening the boat people to pick
- out those really fleeing persecution?
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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