1.   And the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who said he was brutalized last summer in a Brooklyn station house, is also pending.

2.   As is so often the case in Haitian immigrant matters, the Creole airwaves were involved.

3.   Because Louima and Antoine, both Haitian immigrants, are black, and the officers are white, the case has had bitter racial overtones.

4.   Besides, Danticat is more than a witness to the Haitian immigrant experience.

5.   Border Patrol agents suspected the boats were run by smugglers who ferry desperate Haitian immigrants to the United States from the Bahamas.

6.   Advocates for Haitian immigrants sharply disagreed.

7.   After five weeks of effort, a jury was selected Monday for the long-awaited trial of four police officers accused of brutalizing a Haitian immigrant.

8.   But the case is one of thousands filed every year by Haitian immigrants who sponsor relatives back home who want to move to the United States.

9.   But the questions have taken on new urgency in the wake of allegations that police officers brutalized Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, inside a Brooklyn station house.

10.   But the questions took on new urgency in the wake of allegations that police officers brutalized Louima, a Haitian immigrant, inside a Brooklyn station house.