Fuentes cites contributions of migrants, urges altruism Pilgrims were undocumented aliens, he says

“The United States stands to benefit from Hispanic migrants if this country treats the newcomers as workers, not as criminals, Mexican novelist and former diplomat Carlos Fuentes said Monday evening.

“No policy of social development,” Fuentes said toward the beginning of his speech, “no project for a new world economic order can exclude protection of the migrant worker ”” who is precisely that, a worker, not a criminal.””

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