Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:42:40 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: don morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu>, jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, lcremean@tidalwave.net Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) Message-ID: <980617184240.ZM13097@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> "Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...)" (Jun 17, 12:35pm) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617121858.18146A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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On Jun 17, 12:35pm, jack wrote: > Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) > <geographical background info> > Off the southern tip of Florida lie a string of islands, known as > the Florida Keys, with one road approximately 150 miles long that > terminates in Key West. Key West is the southern most point in > the continental US and 90 miles from Cuba. Tourism is the > primary industry in the Keys. > </geographical background info> > > One holiday weekend in the early 1980's Immigration set up what > they called a checkpoint (in actuality a roadblock) at the two > points where the road connects to the mainland. Everyone was > required to present identification to pass. Rumor had it that > two of the individuals caught in the 5+ hour delay that was > created were the wife and son of the areas congress critter. Two > days latter the head of the INS office in Miami was replaced. > The stunt was never repeated. > Only in America. The INS offical in Miami probably would have been better off with a naval blockade of Cuba. ;-) Frank > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst > jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. > PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null > Mail from netcom.com blocked until they stop relaying SPAM > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- End of excerpt from jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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