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5. "migrant smuggling ships"?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 05:46 AM

May 2015

Hmmm. Just a day or so ago we were calling them refugee boats. That's an intentional shift in connotation.

Looks like the ubiquitous They have stepped in to stop any country of humans from behaving with any humanity.

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