DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Today's "CNN 20" report on Haitian refugee policy changes.</s>JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF: Well, in 1994, you had a tremendous amount of unrest going on in Haiti. You had dictatorships running Haiti constantly down there after the fall of Duvalier, which had happened back in the 1980s. And it was one dictatorship after another after another. And what you had was a people in just total desperation by '94. And they were building wooden boats along the north coast of Haiti, and they were taking off on all these little sailboats. In the summer of '94, it really got bad. The United States finally had to say, look, no more. We've got to stop this exodus from Haiti. We can't allow it to happen because what's happening is: people are dying. Using that as their reasoning, they said, from now on, anybody who is picked up is either going to be taken to a third country or repatriated back to Haiti. And that, of course, stirred tremendous amount of reaction in South Florida in the Haitian community because what you've had over the years here in South Florida, even to this day, is a belief in a double standard. That it's a racist policy, that because Haitians are black they are sent back. That's the way they put it. So it's always been an issue that has struck a raw cord here in South Florida.
CNN 20: Haitian Refugee Policy Changes, July 5, 1994