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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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2. The image with your article is painful to contemplate. What a horrendous journey, so many lost......

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Fri Nov 14, 2014, 08:47 PM

Nov 2014

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People have to be so desperate to even consider attempting it.

Middle class US Americans, watching them on tv news shows, etc. have never been through anything remotely similar to what these frightened, weary travelers saw in their old lives every day, and the dangerous, treacherous trip to try to escape it.

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US to offer refugee status to some undocumented child migrants [View all] Eugene Nov 2014 OP

Teaparty will go insane, especially the christian teaparty, they really really hate all randys1 Nov 2014 #1

Teaparty peeps do love other people's "children" for the 9 months from conception to birth. n/t Judi Lynn Nov 2014 #3

The image with your article is painful to contemplate. What a horrendous journey, so many lost...... Judi Lynn Nov 2014 #2

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