For 1,800 Haitians - Freedom

A federal court upholds their release from 14 detention camps

"Viktoua net! [Complete victory!] They are going to free you! They have to free you!" Marc Garcia, the Miami radio commentator known as Marcus to the 437 Haitians at Krome Avenue Processing Center who tune in his daily Creole-language broadcasts, was all but shouting the good news into his microphone last week. In Atlanta, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit had just refused to block a federal district court decision ordering the release "forthwith" of 1,800 Haitian...

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