Haitian Deportation Agreement

In September 1981, The United States Entered An Agreement With Haiti To Interdict Haitian Boats And Return Prospective Immigrants To Haiti.

Under the agreement, 3,107 Haitians had been returned by 1984. Nevertheless, clandestine departures by boat continued throughout the 1980s. The Bahamas was another destination of Haitian emigrants; an estimated 50,000 arrived there by boat during the 1980s. The Bahamas had welcomed Haitian immigrants during the 1960s, but in the late 1970s, it reversed its position, leading to increased emigration to Florida.

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