THE FEARFUL IMMIGRANTS NEXT DOOR. Millions in the U.S. illegally are respected longtime residents who are suddenly facing calamity. Meet some of them.

“They are the images that dominate the raging debate over illegal immigration. Day laborers waiting for work on street corners; migrants scurrying across the dusty border; low-wage workers leading shadowy underground lives.

But many of the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live far closer to society’s mainstream, with about a third of them now here a decade or more, according to a recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center.”

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