This is not the forced returnee. this is the returnee. as if you are coming back from a sail in the afternoon from the yacht club. This is Haitians fleeing an illegal military dictatorship which contravenes all the principles of human rights. Furthermore. this policy violates the United States Refugee Act of 1980. articles 13 and 14. I can get legalistic like the President does. too. I will tell you what articles 13 and 14 say of the universal declaration of human rights. Universal. it applies to all of us. Article 33 of the U.N. Refugee Convention and Protocol. This is what we tried to do. This is what tho President told us we were supposed to be. We were supposed to be naighbors in the world. We were supposed to be a rainbow of people in a new world order all going to look out for each other. It prohibits the return of a refugee in any manner whatsoever to a place where his or her life would be threatened. That is what it says. We can either believe it or not. There is no in between. not as far as this Member is concerned. Madam Speaker. sending these refugees back to Haiti will not solve the grave situation which exists there today. Thousands of people are in hiding. Torture. arbitrary arrests. and extrajudicial executions are being committed by security forces of the military.
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