28271: Hermantin(News)Haitians calling for release of migrants (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Posted on Mon, Apr. 10, 2006



Haitians calling for release of migrants

By JASMINE KRIPALANI
jkripalani@MiamiHerald.com

Three days after U.S. Border Patrol detained a group of 46 Haitian migrants, 
several Haitian groups in South Florida are demanding equal treatment for the 
refugees.

Under the law, a Cuban migrant who reaches land is eligible to stay in the 
United States for a year and apply for residency, but Haitians and other 
foreign nationals are sent back.

To protest the different treatment, several Haitian supporters will gather at 
11 a.m. today at the Jean Jacques Dessalines Center, 8325 NE Second Ave.

On Friday morning, a 45-foot fishing boat carrying about 46 Haitian migrants 
washed up along the northeastern Broward City of Hillsboro Beach.

The U.S. Border Patrol detained them.

Speakers at the conference will include Cheryl Little, executive director of 
the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; Randolph McGrorty, executive director of 
the Archdiocese of Miami's Catholic Charities Legal Services; and Marleine 
Bastien, executive director for Haitian Women of Miami.

For more information, contact Bastien at 305-756-8050.