In September 2007, Senegalese television viewers saw the image of a drowned body washed up on a rocky seashore. In the grim advertisement--paid for by Spain's secretary of state for immigration--a grieving mother explains that she hasn't heard from her son in months. The spot then [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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