Number of Intercepted Refugees Soars
<i> Associated Press</i>
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
U.S. Coast Guard cutters intercepted 1,330 Haitian refugees Monday in one of the busiest single days since refugees began fleeing Haiti following a 1991 military coup.
The new exodus comes in the wake of President Clinton’s looser policy toward Haitian refugees, which many expected would encourage more desperate Haitians to try to escape their violent, dirt-poor homeland. The new policy took effect 11 days ago.
The number of Haitians intercepted since Friday nearly equals the 2,239 apprehended in all of 1993.
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