• 'Give them right, give them freedom'

  • Sep 21 2022
  • Length: 21 mins
  • Podcast

'Give them right, give them freedom'

  • Summary

  • By 1976, an estimated 1,500 Haitians had arrived in South Florida by boat. Even amid widespread repression and persecution at home, successive U.S. governments categorically denied Haitians were asking for political asylum. In the third episode of Detention By Design, we look at how the Cold War shaped immigration detention in the late 1970s - with those fleeing Communist regimes being granted asylum, while Haitians were being thrown in jail.
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