US Keeps Dozens Haitians in Prison
The US immigration system keeps
about 30 Haitian people in Florida who managed to survive from
last January 12 earthquake and reached this country by the navy
airplanes.
The immigrants were arrested as soon as they touched the US land
lacking their visas and has remained in confinement for over two
months without receiving special attention, referred The New York
Times.
Many of the Haitians imprisoned were at Port au Prince airport
looking for food, security and medical assistance when the US
Army planes began to evacuate the people after the earthquake.
The US authorities put them under federal custody as soon as they
reached the country but they can not send them back because of
the White House order to stop deportations to Haiti, referred
the rotary.
The immigration system refused to accept the demands of prisoners'
relatives who want to take care of them or the nationwide psychotherapist,
who offered to give assistance in prison, added the newspaper.
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