[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 22 (Monday, June 7, 1993)]
[Pages 1025-1026]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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Proclamation 6569--Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants
of Persons Who Formulate or Implement Policies That Are Impeding the
Negotiations Seeking the Return to Constitutional Rule in Haiti
June 3, 1993
By the President of the United States
of America
A Proclamation
In light of the political crisis in Haiti resulting from the
expulsion from Haiti of President Aristide and the constitutional
government, I have determined that it is in the interests of the United
States to restrict the entry to the United States of certain Haitian
nationals who formulate, implement, or benefit from policies that impede
the progress of the negotiations designed to restore constitutional
government to Haiti, and the immediate families of such persons.
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, by the power vested in me as
President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America,
including section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952,
as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States
Code, hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry
into the United States of persons described in section 1 of this
proclamation would, except as provided for in sections 2 or 3 of this
proclamation, be detrimental to the interests of the United States. I do
therefore proclaim that:
Section 1. The entry into the United States as immigrants and
nonimmigrants of persons who formulate, implement, or benefit from
policies that impede the progress of the negotiations designed to
restore constitutional government to Haiti, and the immediate family
members of such persons, is hereby suspended.
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Sec. 2. Section 1 shall not apply with respect to any person
otherwise covered by section 1 where the entry of such person would not
be contrary to the interests of the United States.
Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 shall be identified
pursuant to procedures established by the Secretary of State, as
authorized in section 6 below.
Sec. 4. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to derogate
from United States Government obligations under applicable international
agreements.
Sec. 5. This proclamation is effective immediately and shall remain
in effect until such time as the Secretary of State determines that it
is no longer necessary and should be terminated.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of State shall have responsibility to
implement this proclamation pursuant to procedures the Secretary may
establish.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of
June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
seventeenth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:30 p.m., June 3, 1993]
Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on June 7.