71. Haitian immigrants were left out of a law passed last year that opened the citizenship door to Central Americans. 72. In Brooklyn, a jury is considering the fate of three white officers charged with concealing the police torture of Abner Louima, a black Haitian immigrant. 73. Interim police will be augmented by refugees trained at the Guantanamo U.S. Navy base in Cuba, and by Haitian immigrants to Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 74. It is common for recent Haitian immigrants to live together as extended families, said Jean Maurice, a Haitian community leader from adjoining East Orange, 75. Last week, members of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force destroyed five wooden sloops known to be smuggling Haitian immigrants from their homeland to the Bahamas. 76. Leaders say it could galvanize immigrants like Francine to stay and commit themselves to the kind of social and political activism that Haitian immigrants have engaged in only sporadically. 77. Last week, members of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force destroyed five wooden sloops known to be smuggling Haitian immigrants. 78. Marie Dorismond, a Haitian immigrant, wailed during a news conference outside her Brooklyn apartment building. 79. Many Dominicans resent the tens of thousands of impoverished Haitian immigrants in their country. 80. Most recently, two white officers were convicted on charges relating to a sodomy assault on a Haitian immigrant. |