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R EFUG EE RESETTLEMEN T
'AGE 2—The Georgia Bullet**?. November 26,1981
Upstate N.Y.: A Move To “Siberia”?
WASHINGTON (NC) - John McCarthy, director of
Migration and Refugee Services for the U.S. Catholic
Conference, described a government plan to move Haitian
and Cuban refugees to upstate New York as sending them to
“Siberia.”
McCarthy, in discussion of an information report at the
bishops’ meeting Nov. 17, said that MRS would help the
refugees no matter where they are.
Questions on the resettlement of refugees highlighted
the USCC information report session at the meeting.
Bishops received reports on communication, education,
social development, migration and Catholic Relief Services.
Among those who expressed concern about U.S.
government plans to send Haitian and Cuban refugees to
Fort Drum, N.Y., was Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of
Miami. He said, “No climate is as heavenly as Miami, but I’m
especially concerned for them in that climate (in upstate
New York). I’m also concerned about removing them from
WAITING - Behind a chain-link fence edged
with barbed wire, Haitians wait in a Florida refugee
camp. Many wait in the camp for months while
their applications for residency are processed.
Bishop Wants Liberty’s Promises Kept
OGDENSBURG, N.Y. (NC) - Bishop Stanislaus J.
Brzana of Ogdensburg has called for special consideration
for Haitian and Cuban refugees to be housed near
Ogdensburg so that “as many as possible could be granted
legal entry into the United States.”
Bishop Brzana made his appeal in response to an
announcement by the U.S. government that as many as
3,000 Haitian and Cuban refugees would be housed at Fort
Drum near Watertown in northern New York state. Some
estimate that the number could go as high as 10,000. No
refugees have yet been sent to Fort Drum.
The refugees have “risked their lives to come here,” said
Bishop Brzana, adding that he wanted “to see great
compassion shown them and the message of the Statue of
Liberty fulfilled.”
The government announcement came within a week
after Bishop Brzana celebrated Mass on Nov. 8 for about
165 Haitian refugees at the Federal Correctional Facility at
Raybrook, N.Y. The refugees there have applied for
political asylum.
The bishop was accompanied by Father Paul Kelly,
chaplain at the facility, and Oblate Father Jean Joseph
Vallieres of St. Peter’s Parish in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Father
Vallieres, who was stationed in Haiti before coming to
Plattsburgh and who speaks Creole, a French dialect
commonly spoken in Haiti, preached the sermon.
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Father Kelly celebrates Mass weekly for the Haitians and
is available at other times for counseling. “My French is just
sufficient that I can be understood by most of them,” he
said. “During the Mass, though, others will often translate
into Creole. We also have some of the men read the
Scriptures in Creole.”
Fort Drum is scheduled to become the main federal
detention center for refugees and illegal aliens. While the
Cubans are considered political refugees because they are
fleeing from a communist country, the Haitians are
considered economic refugees, and therefore illegal aliens,
because of Haiti’s poverty and because its government is
friendly to the United States. The Haitians are being held
pending legal disposition of their cases and could be
deported to Haiti.
In an editorial in the North Country Catholic, newspaper
of the Ogdensburg Diocese, Father Bernard Christman,
editor, appealed to Catholics of the diocese to be more
concerned about mercy than justice in dealing with the
refugees.
“There will be many federal officials and advocacy
groups trying to sort out the legalities of the refugees’
status,” Father Christman wrote. “As Catholics it will be
our primary task to provide in whatever way we can for
their comfort and spiritual needs.
“While others quarrel about their status and their
location, we must concern ourselves with the more
immediately pressing issue of their care. Don’t let the justice
issue and litigation get in the way of mercy. Where there is
mercy, justice is sure to follow.”
contact with relatives and legal counsel who speak Creole.”
Auxiliary Bishop Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Brooklyn,
chairman of the migration and tourism committee, reported
that the USCC had planned a network for refugees around
the country but now that the government plans to put them
in one center there will be “a whole new approach.”
MRS has resettled about 1,000 Haitian refugees. It also
resettled many of the Cubans who arrived in the United
States in 1980 and now has a special placement program for
Cuban refugees with emotional and social problems. Over
800 Cubans have been resettled through the program.
An information report on the USCC Communication
Committee detailed the Catholic Communication
Campaign and the Respect Life Campaign. It stated that
Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence has been selected as
the chairman of the National Catholic Telecommunications
Network board.
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school Nov. 17. Top photo, one of the
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