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US turned away thousands of Haitian asylum-seekers and detained hundreds more in the 90s

  • Written by A. Naomi Paik, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Haitian refugees at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, Sept. 7, 1994.AP Photo/Doug Mills

President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies, where people crossing the border without documents are criminally prosecuted, do not represent the first time the U.S. has indefinitely detained immigrant children and families.

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