Then took part in Operation Sea Signal, the security and processing of Haitian migrants.
This ship/helicopter deployment was shortened so that Spencer could participate in the response to a mass exodus of Haitian migrants.
The ship repatriated over 1700 Haitian migrants during this patrol.
The last Haitian migrants departed in late 1995.
Comfort was ordered to activation to serve as migrant processing center for Haitian migrants.
On June 16, 1994 the first Haitian migrants were taken aboard.
It claimed that the order had "fueled a nearly 20-fold increase in the number of Haitian migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally."
The last Haitian migrants departed Guantanamo on 1 November 1995.
Benin's slaves brought to Louisiana the voodoo, followed then by Haitian migrants arrived to that state in the late nineteenth century.
In May 2009, similarly, nine Haitian migrants were killed when a boat loaded with approximately 30 passengers capsized.