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"Government Officials Would Not Even Confirm That the Dead Man Had Existed"

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:46 AM | By Kerry Howley
Last night I listened to a member of the U.S. Coast Guard narrate the experience of intercepting a boat full of Haitians trying to reach American soil. The worst part, he said, was that the immigrants thought they’d found “the welcome wagon.” The Coast Guard was enthusiastically invited onto the boat before they burned it and repatriated its passengers ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)

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