Joe Carolla - All they wanted was freedom.

All they wanted was freedom.

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Joe Carolla, Mayor of Miami, Florida, Statement when six Cuban immigrants trying to land by small boat in Florida and where driven off and finally arrested by the coast guard and the Immigration service, Quoted in The Washington Post, July 3, 1999

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