The Nation - News from Jan. 16, 1989

As more Nicaraguan refugees pour into Miami from Texas, a pregnant woman housed at the Bobby Maduro Stadium was said by hospital officials to be suffering from chicken pox, prompting fear she may have unknowingly spread the disease among others. Celia Gutierrez, a Nicaraguan refugee in her ninth month of pregnancy, was allowed into the stadium--which already holds 263 refugees--because of her advanced pregnancy, authorities said. The migration of Nicaraguans from Texas was sparked when a federal judge ruled Jan. 12 that the Immigration and Naturalization Service could not require the refugees to stay in Brownsville while their applications for political asylum were being processed there. Since the ruling, about 700 Nicaraguan refugees have arrived in Miami by bus.