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Photos and story by David Bacon
New American Media

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While the criminalization of undocumented people in Arizona continues to draw headlines, the actual punishment of workers because of their immigration status has become an increasingly bitter fact of life across the country. The number of workplace raids carried out by the Obama administration is staggering. Tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of workers have been fired for not having papers.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As the marimba band rolled out its sounds and the marigolds honored the departed at a recent Day of the Dead annual celebration in El Paso, visitors to the lively festivity at Centro Mayapan were greeted by a petition and a flyer. In part, the flyer read:</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United States and Mexico share a 2000-mile border where a population of 9 million is growing more than twice as fast as the populations of U.S. and Mexico.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “I saw how the hill was sliding down, the authorities came in yesterday to take us out of our homes, they told us the hill was collapsing. At 5 am Monday my house collapsed completely” said 54 year old Juan Sandoval just one of the dozen homeowners who lost their homes this week in Tijuana after a hill collapsed underneath their homes at Fraccionamiento Monterrey.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to Sandoval, they noticed the earth moving about two weeks ago.</p>

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Perspective:

By Kent Paterson
Editor
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