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Before night falls.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
Reading the O'Sullivan-Krikorian/ Jacoby immigration debate (Oct. 10), one is struck by a haunting sense of historical deja vu. What, we wonder, might a Roman Gaul circa 350 A.D. have thought as he watched an ever-increasing number of Franks and Germans cross the river into the empire?
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