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"In 2001, there was a lot of support for the bill," said [Vera Weekes]. "Then we got 9/11. We are in a period of anti-immigrant feelings and people are confused about who are terrorists."
"It is very stressful," she said. "Everybody is sending letters to the offices of the president and Homeland Security, making phone calls. Doing everything to get the situation reversed.""The bill was re-introduced last week," said Weekes. "But we need someone to push it. We are not millionaires. We thought it might be included in some of the pork being split up, but we don't have any money to rub palms."See the full content of this document
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Montserratians Facing Return to Volcanic Island
In 24 days, 292 refugees from Montserrat living in the United States, many of them in the Boston area, will be sent back to their mostly destroyed Caribbean island under the shadow of an ...
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