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Caption Contest
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Originally posted by bilmore
I'm guessing Slave didn't react to the technical holding that some kid should be afforded some certain level of protection, but to the idea that some small kid, having braved the seas and escaped the killing fields of Fidel, should get to stay in this country, because this is the country that you wish all such kids could have the opportunity to come to.
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No kidding, Dick Tracy. We have laws to protect people because sometimes we have leaders whose judgment we agree with, and sometimes we don't. Seeing Elian sent back to Cuba might give one sympathy for the idea that the President shouldn't have unbridled discretion to decide who stays on that island.
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