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Haiti refugee boat trade fuels passport tax and exodus
A U S Coast Guard haul of 87 Haitians from a dilapidated 30 foot boat highlights a system where passports are sold for 100 and refugee routes to Florida yield 300 to 1800 per trip. The Duvalier regime tolerates this to ease social pressure and gain remittances, with over 100000 Haitians already settled in New York and Miami and TB rates among arrivals far above county norms.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Radio Nationale
Voice of Haiti
U.S. Coast Guard
Florida
U.S
Miami
Jean Claude Duvalier
New York Times
High Seas
United States
William B. Jones
Vincent Nemours
New York
Dade County
Dade-Monroe