Illegal Day Laborers Hold Convention, Protest in D.C.
"While Congress, critics of illegal immigration, employers and neighbors
push and pull over this spreading yet still somewhat inscrutable population, day laborers are fashioning a culture. In the immigration wars, they have been defined two ways -- by the work they do, and by the way many entered the country. Now they would define themselves another way: through theater, painting, poetry -- and especially music," says the Washington Post. "On Friday night conference participants marched in Herndon to protest a proposal to limit the day labor center there to legal residents. That battle is unfolding just as Prince William and Loudoun counties are considering withholding some services from illegal immigrants."
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