Speaker. last night as I prepared to leave my office for the evening. I received a most troubling phone call from one of my constituents. A Philadelphia lawyer with Church World Services. who had just returned from Haiti. to witness the forced repatriation of these socalled economic refugees. My friends. the man spoke with a tremor in his voice. as he told a story that I must relay to you. After sailing on an overcrowded. raft for several days in temperatures of up to 100 degrees. a woman of approximately 35 years with a 3yearold child by her side. was asked to step off the Coast Guard Cutter which had just set shore at her native land.
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