The second major migration of Haitian people arriving to the US began in 1991 and extended until 1993 and was the result of a military coup to dethrone the first democratically elected Haitian President, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Because the US government strongly condemned this military coup, the George W. Bush administration saw these migrants as in need of a safe haven and granted them paroled asylum in the US. According to this chart, the number of Haitian immigrants in the United States peaked at almost 50,000 in 1991 but went down in mid-1990 when the US government required the coast guard to intercept and send back Haitians attempting to arrive to the US by boat.
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