Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1984
Excerpt
In the early 1980's the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service began a policy of incarcerating Haitians at Miami's Krome Detention Center. A visit to the facility in those days revealed the inhumane treatment being afforded to people who in desperation had fled the tyrannical regime of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier in creaky, overloaded boats.
At Krome they sat-month after month-segregated from family and friends in a strange new land; prisoners penned in by barbed-wire fences. Krome was aptly characterized as an ugly scar on the face of American democracy.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 31, No. 4), June 1984" (1984). The Vanguard. 270.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/vanguard/270
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