Mr. President. the current issue of Time magazine includes a beautifully written article by Tammerliin Drummond describing the plight of more than 200 Haitian refugee children being kept at a place called Camp Nine at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Cuba. The children escaped Haiti on rafts nearly a year ago. and many of them are orphans. News has reached Guantanamo that the Cuban refugees living there will soon be admitted to the United States. yet there is no end in sight for the interned Haitian children. A report in the Washington Post over the weekend indicates efforts are being made to help the Haitian children. but under current United States policy. they are ineligible for "humanitarian parole" to enter the United States because democratic government has been restored in Haiti. The children will be returned to Haiti if relatives can be located there. 60 children have been repatriated thus far.
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