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无家可归的海地人，不要逃往美国
迈阿密 ——美国告诉几百万因上周的地震无家可归，陷入赤贫的海地人：不要企图前往美国。
一架美国空军运输机每天都要在这片荒芜的国土上空飞行五小时，通过其携带的无线电发射装置向海地广播新闻，以及海地驻华盛顿大使雷德蒙.约瑟夫的讲话。
根据五角大楼发布的讲稿副本，我们看到约瑟夫先生用克罗地亚语说：“注意，不要慌忙乘船离开海地，否则，你我都会更麻烦。我诚恳地告诉你们：如果你认为到只要到了美国，所有的大门都会向你敞开，那你就完全错了。他们会在海上拦截你，你从哪里来就把你送回哪里。”
国土安全与防御部官员称他们正在采取强硬措施防止大量难民出逃，这会导致难民死在海上，或是在佛罗里达州南部造成难民危机。海地首都太子港距离迈阿密仅700英里。
目前，海地人还没被有想乘船逃离该岛的迹象，美国官员说。他们也没有大量逃离到邻国多米尼加共和国，只有3000名受伤者在刚刚越过海地边境的多米尼加医院里接受治疗，那里的官员这样说。
但是美国官员称他们担心在接下来一周，海地日益恶化的条件会促使他们出逃。为了防患于未然，美国不仅发起运动劝说海地人民原地不动，而且还派飞机搜寻任何企图把非法移民送往古巴关塔纳摩湾的船只。
国土安全部官员已经把迈阿密Krome服务处理中心（关押等待发配人员的联邦监狱）的200名非法移民移往别处，来为可能到来的海地移民腾出空间。
迈阿密大学米勒医学院院长威廉.欧尼尔博士称，美国国务院还拒绝了太子港的很多重伤病人的签证，拒绝他们前往迈阿密接受手术和治疗。该医学院已经在机场附近搭建了一个野战医院。
周六，刚刚从海地回到迈阿密的欧尼尔博士说：“简直荒谬之极。这是官僚主义的最坏体现。”
而一位国土安全部发言人则称，美国海关已经允许23名海地人通过人道主义组织进入美国接受治疗。
周一晚些时候，国土安全部秘书珍妮特.纳波利塔诺称美国可能允许一些海地孤儿以个人身份暂时进入美国。
国务院发言人诺埃尔.克莱称，美国并没有暂停那些企图逃离的海地人的签证申请，尽管国土安全部已经暂停了遣返已经到达美国的海地非法移民。
克莱先生说：“我们敦促在海地的海地人不要拿自己的生命冒险，进行这种危险的海上航行。”
多米尼加共和国政府的立场相似。外交关系处秘书命令，只有需要紧急医疗救助的海地人才能入境。军队已在边境的公路上设置了检查站以执行这一命令。
总统Leonel Fernández的发言人桑德拉.塞维里洛称，边境上的非法移民没有激增，相反有很多生活在多米尼加的海地人正在回国去支援他们的亲属。
巴哈马群岛副外事部长T. 布伦特.斯门尼特称，由于巴哈马境内有大量海地居民，他们也在密切监视其海域，但目前为止还未发现载有难民的船只。他还称，考虑到这场人道主义危机的严重程度，巴哈马不会遣返已经入境的海地人。
移民专家们普遍认为，此时此刻海地人通过小船偷渡的可能不大，但下周的情况却不好预计。很多地震受害者还在苦苦寻找食物和水; 他们没有条件搭乘飞机和海轮。而且此时海岸巡逻队的五艘快艇正在海地海域不断巡查。
陆军少尉指挥官克里斯.欧尼尔称，海岸巡逻队在周一没有发现载有海地难民的船只。他说，“没有，一只都没有。而且也没发现任何准备偷渡的迹象。”他还说任何被发现离岛前往佛罗里达的人都会被遣返。
Homeless Haitians Told Not to Flee to U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/1 ... ner=rss&emc=rss
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: January 18, 2010
MIAMI — America has a message for the millions of Haitians left homeless and destitute by last week’s earthquake: Do not try to come to the United States.
Every day, a United States Air Force cargo plane specially equipped with radio transmitters flies for five hours over the devastated country, broadcasting news and a recorded message from Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s ambassador in Washington.
“Listen, don’t rush on boats to leave the country,” Mr. Joseph says in Creole, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon. “If you do that, we’ll all have even worse problems. Because, I’ll be honest with you: If you think you will reach the U.S. and all the doors will be wide open to you, that’s not at all the case. And they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from.”
Homeland Security and Defense Department officials say they are taking a hard line to avert a mass exodus from the island that could lead to deaths at sea or a refugee crisis in South Florida. Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is about 700 miles from Miami.
So far, there has been no sign of Haitians trying to flee the island by boat, United States officials say. Nor has there been a mass exodus of Haitians into the neighboring Dominican Republic, except for about 3,000 injured people who are being treated at hospitals just over the Dominican border, officials there say.
But United States officials say they worry that in the coming weeks, worsening conditions in Haiti could spur an exodus. They have not only started a campaign to persuade Haitians to stay put, but they are also laying plans to scoop up any boats carrying illegal immigrants and send them to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Department of Homeland Security officials have also transferred 200 illegal immigrants from the Krome Service Processing Center here — a federal jail for people awaiting deportation — to make room for a possible influx of Haitian migrants.
The State Department has also been denying many seriously injured people in Port-au-Prince visas to be transferred to Miami for surgery and treatment, said Dr. William O’Neill, the dean of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, which has erected a field hospital near the airport there.
“It’s beyond insane,” Dr. O’Neill said Saturday, having just returned to Miami from Haiti. “It’s bureaucracy at its worse.”
Customs officials have allowed a total of 23 Haitians into the United States on humanitarian grounds for medical treatment, said a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.
And late Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the United States would allow some orphaned children to enter the country temporarily on an individual basis.
A State Department spokesman, Noel Clay, said the United States had not suspended its visa requirements for Haitians trying to flee the disaster, even though the Department of Homeland Security has halted the deportations of Haitians already in the United States illegally.
“We urge Haitians in Haiti not to put their lives at additional risk by embarking on a dangerous sea voyage,” Mr. Clay said.
In the Dominican Republic, officials have adopted a similar stance. The secretary of foreign relations has ordered only Haitians with medical emergencies allowed into the country, and the Army has established checkpoints on roads leading from the border.
Sandra Severino, a spokeswoman for President Leonel Fernández, said there had not been a huge spike in illegal immigration on the border, and indeed many Haitians already in the Dominican Republic are returning to help their families.
Officials in the Bahamas, which has a large Haitian population, are also keeping a close watch on the seas, but have not noticed a surge in boats carrying refugees, said the deputy prime minister for foreign affairs, T. Brent Symonette. He added that the Bahamas would not repatriate immigrants arriving from Haiti immediately, given the severity of the humanitarian crisis.
Few experts on immigration expect droves of Haitians to take to the seas in flimsy boats right away, though they add that it is hard to predict what will happen in the coming weeks. Most earthquake victims are still struggling to find food and water; they are in no condition to plan and provision a sea voyage. In addition, the Coast Guard currently has five cutters patrolling Haitian waters.
Lt. Commander Chris O’Neil said the Coast Guard had not spotted any boats leaving Haiti with refugees on Monday. “None, zero,” he said, “and no indication of anyone making preparations to do so.” He said anyone caught leaving the island and heading toward Florida would be returned to Haiti. |
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