High court to hear illegal-worker case from Georgia

“A few blocks down the main road from this small downtown in the north Georgia hills, the Matul family from Guatemala has opened a grocery store selling fresh exotic fruits, canned juice from Mexico and international telephone calling cards.

Owner Brenda Matul, 29, counts on the influx of Hispanic immigrants to the community to seal the success of her five-month-old Tienda la Guadalupana — and her life’s journey from Central America to become a naturalized U.S. citizen with U.S.-born, bilingual children.

Immigrants account for nearly one-sixth of Calhoun’s 13,000 residents. Like virtually everyone else in town, at some point most have worked for the world’s largest carpet makers, headquartered here and in nearby towns.”

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