Only five families have come forward in California. (in another famous case, a Mexican woman with an American-born son was this week deported after sheltering in a Chicago church for a year.)

这些要求限制了申请正式庇护的人数，加州只有5个家庭主动响应(而本周另一起知名案件里，一名墨西哥妇女和她生于美国的儿子被驱逐出境，之前他们已在芝加哥一家教堂藏身一年)。

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An American woman who came out early this morning, right? And you spoke to her son in Florida.

今天凌晨，一名美国女性也脱险了，对吗？你们还和她在佛罗里达的儿子通话。

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Oh, my son is an American citizen. We want to live together in the future.

我儿子已经是美国公民了，我想以后过去和他一起生活。

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But it was an American sharecropper's son, Jesse Owens, who provided the ultimate truth.

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As an Asian American son of immigrants, I am personally delighted to be part of this effort.

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However, Bob Monetti, an American whose son Rick was also killed, said Megrahi should not be given bail.

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He left Iraq after an American soldier shot his son, who has been left in a vegetative state following several surgeries.

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