European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Florida haitians last of the unwanted refugees Magazine  associated press a  Francois dreams the immigrant s dream. Simple and Strong of better  is an illegal haitian migrant rail thin with Large sad eyes a Small voice and $150 a month from the City of Miami to feed her 18 month old son a temporary work permit  when she arrived in 1 98 1 was revoked and the Fhy 29-year-old woman cannot earn a living. Her savings Are gone and she eals once every two Days if those conditions Are no Betler than in her native Haiti she says at least in America she has a fighting Chance. Paupers of the americas the last of the unwanted refugees thousands of haitians like Francois Are lighting to stay in this multiethnic City where English and Spanish Are the dominant tongues. Perry Rivkind District director of the . Immigration and naturalization service in Miami has heard Francois dream in 60,000 different ways from each haitian who is fighting to stay in South Florida. I have to take a very Strong View that every nation has a right to protect its Borders in every Way shape or form it wants to Rivkind says. Seated in his spacious office on the 1 1th floor of the ins building overlooking Miami s Little Haiti Rivkind defends us. Immigration policy and talks about his work. It involves listening to tales from surviving haitian immigrants of How smugglers throw even children overboard when their rickety overcrowded boats threaten to founder in rough seas. It Means lacing haitian mothers whose temporary work permits have been revoked clamouring that their babies Are starving. It Means answering reporters questions about Why cubans who float to Florida in inner tubes receive a hero s Welcome while haitians whose Flimsy vessels Beach on South Florida shores Are locked up at the ins s Krome detention Center and shipped Back to their impoverished Caribbean nation. The a thing is that you have a cuban adjustment act that Only cubans of All the countries in the world Are entitled to apply for permanent residency risk my says i know that haitian people feel resentful Over that. Bui discrimination in t the Issue at  takes such a bum rap for enforcing the Laws created by the Congress of the United states. Every Day this country deports at least 65 nationalities. The haitians Are in the same exact _ situation As those people it s As simple As  from 1977 through 1984, the ins knows of 29,150 haitians who entered Florida illegally. From april 1984 to april 1985. 1.172 haitians were admitted to Krome As of mid november. 140 haitians comprised the second largest population at Krome. An ins facility West of Miami on the Edge of the Everglades holding 506 illegal aliens. The largest single group was he 146 cubans who arrived a the 1980 Mariel Boal Litt from the port of Mariel and have since been found deportable. Those who claim the ins discriminates Afla incl haitians say a year old Federal program called save. Or systematic alien ,ca.,on for entitlements is no More than an attempt to starve haitians out of the u7lndetsave. Welfare agencies run a computer Check with ins to verify a person s immigration status Annelle Francois with her son Gerard is an illegal haitian migrant in desperate Straits since her temporary work permit issued m Miami in 198 j was revoked. It 1 he haitian population r savings of $5,078,653 in Public assistance that otherwise would have gone to the refugees. During that time the number of aliens found ineligible for benefits was 2.366. A very Large proportion haitian says Richard b. Smith assistant District director for investigations at the ins s Miami District. One of those was Francois when Francois and about 70 other haitians arrived in South Florida in 1981 aboard a worn Leaky boat they were captured and detained at Krome. The previous year had marked the Peak of haitian migration to South Florida and the ins was forced to Issue temporary work permits when the system became so backlogged that cases could not be processed within a Legal 45-Day period. Krome was very full and they released us  Francois said through an interpreter. I got my work authorization and started looking for a Job anything. I can  Francois who did t know a word of English Lound work at a dry cleaner s pressing clothes Lor $3.75 an hour. She was Laid of in february and applied for worker s compensation. A computer Check revealed that her work permit had been revoked. She was told she was not entitled to benefits. When you work. Hoy take away Money for social Security she said. Bui now i m not working and that Money is mine. Do they have a right to withhold m 9 i think they re stealing it from me. My savings Are finished to Cook every other Day. The Money from the City is Lor the baby. They re leaving me to die. I Don l know what i m going to  Rivkind s response they have to realize they can go Home at any  the government will provide a one Way flight aboard a commercial it. But most of those who have fled Haiti the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere Harbor no desire to return. When a person leaves a place and comes Back after 10 years you have to Start at the  says Duclos Dolce. 34. I Don t have anybody there now. I Don t know where they Are  monday december 23, 1985 Dolce led Haiti Lor the Bahamas in 1975. He had been in the United Stales since 1978 working with a temporary permit until april when the Permil was revoked and he lost his Job As a maintenance Man Al a Miami Beach condominium. I could t pay my rent he says. I even had to give up my furniture because i did t have Money to store it. I had Nice furniture. My sister had to take in my daughter because we were living out of my  he s still living out of his car. He earns minimum wage at a part time Job parking cars at a condominium. An aunt invites him Over to eat on occasion. As with Francois Dolce s savings Are gone. He says he does t understand Why he is not allowed to work any longer. I was on unemployment Lor Only one month in 1984," Dolce said proudly. The rest of the time. I work since october 1982, when the haitian interdiction program started the . Coast guard has turned Back to Haili 6.087 people supposedly headed toward Florida in boats. Of those who escaped the vigilance of the coast guard at least 500 have died just in the last two years. Rivkind says. Now. That s just a Guesstimate. But no less than 500. There s no keeping figures because no one has provable amounts. But with the smugglers killing them and the hazards of the trip. I Don l think it could be  on oct. 26. 1981. Ocean Roll residents in Hillsboro Beach a pricey Community North of Miami awoke to find the bodies of 33 haitians awash on the Beach. Thirty Lour others All packed aboard a 25-foot boat survived. On dec 1. 1982. A Federal court jury convicted two haitians of conspiracy and alien smuggling charges Lelling to an Ocean crossing marked by voodoo ceremonies and deals. Survivors testified 250 haitians embarked on the voyage Only 160 arrived. In the latest incident seven haitian refugees told immigration officials of How smugglers who were paid to bring them to Florida threw overboard As Many As 100 of their fellow travellers when Stormy seas threatened to sink their Boal. Their 40-loot Sailboat beached aug. 14 on cat Cay. A tiny desolate bahamian Island. When rescuers Lound them there were 134 remaining. The stars and stripes Page 13