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Migrants Are Stranded on a U.S. Warship With Nowhere to Go

PAWN SACRIFICE

A U.S. Navy warship did the right thing. It saved the lives of dozens of people drowning off the coast of Libya. But what does it do with these people who have suffered so much?

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been corrected. An earlier version reported that the U.S. Navy ship picked up survivors as well as several corpses from a sinking boat off the coast of Libya, then returned the dead to the water in a burial at sea because of inadequate storage facilities....

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