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Haitian refugees who landed in Florida looking for a new home during the Cuban migration were not given political status as were the Cubans. Most were detained as their fates were decided by the government. Some were sent to a prison in New York…

Over 100 Haitian boatpeople approach Miami seeking asylum in their unseaworthy craft. Tens of thousands of poor Haitians have landed in south Florida in the past few years. Many others have died trying. United States Immigration officials have…

Prophete Talleyrand was a Haitian refugee who hung himself on Aug. 10, 1982. In the top photo his remains are carried by US Border Patrol agents into the forensic medicine office in San Juan. Soney Douyson is one of the first ones to leave (bottom…

Colonia Benito Juarez is home to approximately 200 Guatemalan families who have fled the violence in their homeland. The huts are made of rough hewn boards and the roofs are thatched banana leaves.

A mother holds her young child who suffers from severe malnutrition at the Santa Tecla refugee camp in El Salvador. The people in the camp are refugees from the civil war in El Salvador. They were visited by US Senators Patrick and Calyborn Pell.

Cambodian refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Refugees of the town of Tyre flee on the main road leading out of town after the Israeli Military authorities have warned the residents to leave the town quickly.

President and Eric Dee move in for a closer look at Shank, an 800 pound Yorkshire boar on a visit to the Dee's 600 acre farm near State Center, Iowa.

Northern Railroad Association President Arthur L. Johnson peers out a cupola window in the 1890's New York Central caboose the group plans to renovate. Trainmen in the past inspected the tracks from the high perch.

An Owambo driver looks proudly from his truck. Despite rocky beginnings for apartheid, blacks in South Africa are slowly beginning to enter the work force. The greatest symbol of freedom and success to these people is a vehicle, especially a truck.