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Italy holds fishing boat migrants »
Posted by: Fabienne 1 year, 10 months agoFrom the article: "More than 400 suspected illegal immigrants have been detained off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, coast guard officials say.The suspected illegal immigrants crossed from Libya in a fishing boat. The boat was intercepted after one of the immigrants used a mobile phone to contact the Italian police on Sicily asking for help, reports said."
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stephen-johnson
Oct. 22, 2006, 1:14 p.m.If not for the Mediterranean Sea, the EU would have a border problem that would make ours pale in comparison.
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stephen-johnson
Oct. 22, 2006, 1:54 p.m.Not by the migrants in the article.
The Moors are invading Europe again
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dtress1d
Oct. 22, 2006, 6:19 p.m.It does sound like the US border, only a lot less of a problem to control!
In a way it sounds like the boat people who try to get into the USA from Cuba and other Southern ports!
I guess people (good or bad) trying to bypass immigration is not just a USA problem after all!
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jordan11
Oct. 22, 2006, 10:11 p.m.In a way it sounds like the boat people who try to get into the USA from Cuba and other Southern ports!>>>>
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame with conquering astride from land to land....
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand, a mighty woman with a torch whose flame is imprisoned lightening, and her name Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon hand glows world wide welcome; her eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!, cries she with her silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...the wretched refuse of your teeming shore...SEND THESE HOMELESS, TEMPEST LOST TO ME....I lift my my lamp beside the golden door."
As stated on the tablet, held in the left hand of the Statue of Liberty.
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joeblowe
Oct. 23, 2006, 10:05 a.m.And as many of them as can FIT on Liberty Island are welcome to respond...
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jordan11
Oct. 23, 2006, 2:24 a.m.I suspect America will not want them.>>>>
Assuming people fleeing Cuba are 'criminals, organized crime, gangsters and terrorists' comes from impoverished minds. Obviously people must be evaluated, but not everyone can petition for entrance. Certainly not from Cuba. Or China. You'd be surprised how many Chinese people risk death to come here. That's all I have to say. I loathe wasting my time.
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