A Hopeful Immigrant's Letter, Intercepted

Sticky Wickets

[26 February 2007]

by Robert Collins

A tip for the riff-raff trying to squeeze through the INS bureaucracy or slip past the US Border Patrol: try bending it like Beckham.

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