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Archive Home > 2006 > April > 07 > Local migrants cling to hope

Local migrants cling to hope

Immigrants say compromise before Congress will benefit them

By Ernestine Bousquet and Kimberlina Rocha / The Bulletin
April 7, 2006

MADRAS - Back home in Oaxaca, Mexico, Herculano Lopez said he made about $7 or $8 a day working in the fields.

In Madras, Lopez, who said he is in the United States illegally, said in Spanish through an interpreter that he will be making $12 an hour planting trees at a local farm for the....

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