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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Castles made of sand

She and her family were deported there in 2003, caught up in the anti-Arab tide that swept across the U.S. after 9/11 . . . .

. . . . In 1998, after being denied green cards, a warrant was issued for the deportation of the parents and six of the seven kids. - Salon, September 9, 2006


So they'd been living in a sandcastle since 1998, the "tide" came in after five years, and Salon seems to want to place moral blame on the Bush Administration. Just because you can write a human-interest story about something—and there's a human-interest story to be written about most anything—doesn't mean it's George Bush's or Dick Cheney's or John Ashcroft's fault.

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