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MIAMI (AP) - When director Carlos Gutierrez set out to make a short film about two Cuban rafters stranded on a deserted island off the coast of Florida, he hoped the movie might renew interest in the U.S. government's wet foot/dry foot immigration policy.
He never set out to make a movie ripped from the headlines.
Then last month the Bush administration sparked a firestorm when it declared an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys didn't count as "dry land" and sent back 15 Cubans who had landed there. Suddenly the Miami-native found himself not only promoting his new Spanish-language film but smack dab in the middle of a major political debate.
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