That they come here legally, that we have their names, we know where they're going to be working, and then begin to secure our borders in a humane fashion so that we're not having people die in our desert every single day.

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But one cannot help but respond to Ms Raffo's humane plea when so much American theatre makes scant reference to the wider world.

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In doing so, he would model a more humane approach to life than the cold pragmatism now eroding the moral fabric of Western democracies.

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Mr Bush's plans, which involve tighter border security, a guest-worker programme and a path to citizenship for the 12m or so illegal immigrants already in America is sensible and humane.

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If the Senate ratifies the CWC, moreover, the administration has announced that it intends to interpret the treaty so broadly as to deny American troops the use of humane, nonlethal weapons like tear gas -- which are likely to come in handy in places like Haiti.

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"We weren't allowed into the really bad areas until just recently, so now we are playing catch-up, " said Rubin, the Humane Society's vice president of field and disaster services.

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Mr. ROBIN HOOVER (Humane Borders): I suspect that there will be groups that have opposing views and so the media will at least get to hear some other soundbites from folks that have more diverse views.

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Unlike so many artists and intellectuals during the hothouse 1930s, the Murphys' politics were non-utopian and humane.

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