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Human rights and religious organizations warned the U.S. government in face-to-face meetings, letters and phone calls that this new policy was dangerous and immoral, that deporting Haitians to Haiti at this time would place strain on an already over-stressed system.
Ruth Messinger: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Ruth Messinger 2011
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Human rights and religious organizations warned the U.S. government in face-to-face meetings, letters and phone calls that this new policy was dangerous and immoral, that deporting Haitians to Haiti at this time would place strain on an already over-stressed system.
Ruth Messinger: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Ruth Messinger 2011
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Does an over-stressed funny bone count as a pre-existing condition?
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Making parents the scapegoats will not improve the situation because poverty lends itself to the environmental disadvantages of largely single-parent households, over-burdened and over-stressed parents, dangerous living conditions, and few cultural opportunities the results which, according to the studies reported in The Times, transcend class even more than race.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Fitting the School to the Student Joel Shatzky 2012
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Does an over-stressed funny bone count as a pre-existing condition?
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Does an over-stressed funny bone count as a pre-existing condition?
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Human rights and religious organizations warned the U.S. government in face-to-face meetings, letters and phone calls that this new policy was dangerous and immoral, that deporting Haitians to Haiti at this time would place strain on an already over-stressed system.
Ruth Messinger: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Ruth Messinger 2011
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Human rights and religious organizations warned the U.S. government in face-to-face meetings, letters and phone calls that this new policy was dangerous and immoral, that deporting Haitians to Haiti at this time would place strain on an already over-stressed system.
Ruth Messinger: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Ruth Messinger 2011
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All with a volunteer military so over-stretched and over-stressed that suicide is the #1 cause of troop death, getting worse by the day.
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Making parents the scapegoats will not improve the situation because poverty lends itself to the environmental disadvantages of largely single-parent households, over-burdened and over-stressed parents, dangerous living conditions, and few cultural opportunities the results which, according to the studies reported in The Times, transcend class even more than race.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Fitting the School to the Student Joel Shatzky 2012
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