The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called for fair treatment of more than 200 Haitian refugees seeking asylum after swimming ashore in Florida last month.
NAACP President and CEO Kweisi Mfume said, "Now is the time for the White House to show that our nation's immigration policy is colorblind by releasing the Haitian refugees and granting them political asylum. The current practice of singling out Haitian refugees for disparate treatment is discriminatory and should cease immediately."
Immigration attorneys sued the government in March. They charge the new detention policy on Haitians, instituted last December, is racially biased. Published reports indicate that Haitian immigrants usually are denied asylum in the United States and sent back to their homeland unlike other refugees who reach American soil.
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