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| Luckson Cenor, 18, left, and his friend Orphilio Belo, 16, sit in the
courtyard of the Haitian Coast Guard base in Carrefour, Haiti, after being repatriated by
the US Coast Guard on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002. The men, who say they are orphans and who
have never attended school, are from Cap-Haitien and were among the 233 Haitians and
Dominicans on board the Haitian freighter which ran aground off Key Biscayne, Florida, on
Oct. 29, 2002. Cenor was told he has an uncle in Miami and he and Belo were going to try
to track him down. (AP Photo/Jane Regan) |
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| A group of migrants walk the Haitian Coast Guard wharf in Carrefour, just
south of the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti after disembarking from the U.S. Coast Guard
(news - web sites) cutter 'Key Largo' Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002. They were among 17 Haitians
and two Dominicans repatriated Tuesday after a desperate attempt to reach U.S. shores told
terrifying tales of the six-day journey on a rickety wooden boat that ended with Miami in
sight. (AP Photo/Jane Regan) |
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| Vicsone Charlo, 37, explains why he and others left Haiti to search for
work in the U.S. as he rests with other Haitian refugees in the courtyard of the Haitian
Coast Guard base in Carrefour, just south of the capital of Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday,
Nov. 5, 2002. Charlo, an unemployed father of four from Cap-Haitien, was among those 17
Haitian and two Dominican refugees on board the Haitian freighter which ran aground off
Key Biscayne, Florida, on October 29, 2002, who were then picked up by the Coast Guard.(AP
Photo/Jane Regan) |
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| Phito Florestal, 42, sits with his daughter Annecy Florestal, 6, on the
porch of their home in Acul du Nord on the north coast of Haiti Friday, Nov. 1, 2002. On
Thursday, a 50-foot wooden freighter loaded with over 200 Haitian migrants left from this
bay for U.S. shores. The migrants jumped overboard and swam ashore when the boat ran
aground off Key Biscayne, Florida. Many of those on the boat are beleived to have come
from the Acul du Nord area. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) |
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| Jameson Pierre, 23, walks on the beach after swimming from his fishing
boat on Chou Chou Bay on the north coast of Haiti Friday, Nov. 1, 2002. On Thursday, a
50-foot wooden freighter loaded with over 200 Haitian migrants left from this bay for U.S.
shores. The migrants jumped overboard and swam ashore when the boat ran aground off Key
Biscayne, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) |
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| A boy on a bicycle looks out at the Atlantic Ocean from the beach of Chou
Chou Bay on the north coast of Haiti Friday, Nov. 1, 2002. On Thursday, a 50-foot wooden
freighter loaded with over 200 Haitian migrants left from this bay for U.S. shores. The
migrants jumped overboard and swam ashore when the boat ran aground off Key Biscayne,
Florida. Pictured on the beach are tree logs used to build another boat. (AP Photo/Lynne
Sladky) |
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| Dioudonnee Pierre Louis, 51, sits with her granddaughter Berly Pierre
Louis, 1, at their home in Acul du Nord on the north coast of Haiti Friday, Nov. 1, 2002.
On Thursday, a 50-foot wooden freighter loaded with over 200 Haitian migrants left from
this bay for U.S. shores. The migrants jumped overboard and swam ashore when the boat ran
aground off Key Biscayne, Florida. Many of those on the boat are beleived to have come
from the Acul du Nord area. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) |
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| Marie Ocean, a December, 2001 Haitian refugee, (R) speaks during a press
conference in Miami, Florida November 1, 2002. Members of Miami's Haitian community are
protesting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service policies concerning Haitians
arriving in the United States. At left is Florida State Representative Phillip Burtus, who
represents Miami's Little Haiti community. REUTERS/Joe Skipper |
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