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Bill Clinton: “I have determined that it is in the foreign policy interest of the United States to defer for 1 year the deportation of…”

On the recordDecember 22, 1997
I have determined that it is in the foreign policy interest of the United States to defer for 1 year the deportation of any Haitian national who was paroled into the United States before December 31, 1995.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas
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presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Memorandum on Deferred Enforced Departure for Haitians

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