I hope. in the next few days to some relief of this situation and a return to the lawfully elected Government of Haiti. we cannot forget that at this moment there are more than 700 people who were on boats seeking to escape who were picked up by the Coast Guard and who have been kept on ships. some for as many as 3 weeks. I am happy to report that we received information today that at least 400 of these people have now been discharged from the Coast Guard cutters onto the base at Guantaname Bay in Cuba. We are using the U.S. base at Guantanamo to set up temporary shelter and provide food and clothing for the Haitian refugees who had been detained on boats for several weeks. I cannot stress too much the inhumanity of this situation. The thing got so bad that Coast Guard intercepted Haitians who were found on a boat that had already docked in the United States. the Coast Guard and the INS forced the captain of the ship to accept the Haitians back on the ship and they told the captain of the ship that it was his responsibility to see to it that none of those Haitians remained in the United States. that they be returned to Haiti. The captain of the ship. following the orders he had been given by the INS. the Immigration and Naturalization Service. and the Coast Guard. decided to chain the black Haitians to the deck of the ship in order for them not to escape. In 1991 in the United States of America. we had black people chained like slaves on ships in a United States port as a result of an order given by the U.S. Government.
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