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![handle is hein.immigration/htnrfgeprt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 102D CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 102-437
HAITIAN REFUGEE PROTECTION ACT OF 1992
FEBRUARY 25, 1992.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BROOKs, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3844]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3844) to assure the protection of Haitians in the United
States or in United States custody pending the resumption of
democratic rule in Haiti, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Haitian Refugee Protection Act of 1992.
SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF HAITIANS IN UNITED STATES CUSTODY.
The President shall provide that no Haitian in the custody or control of the
United States as of February 5, 1992, whether on board United States Government
vessels, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or elsewhere, outside the United States will be
involuntarily returned to Haiti until-
(1) 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, or
(2) 5 days after the date of submission of the final report under section 3(c),
whichever occurs later.
SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF STATE STUDY AND REPORT.
(a) STUDY OF HAITIANs RETURNED To HArl.-The Assistant Secretary of State for
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, in conjunction with the United States Co-
ordinator for Refugee Affairs, shall conduct a study concerning Haitians who were
interdicted or rescued by United States Government vessels after September 29,
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