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“Mexican immigrants working in construction and service jobs are driving metro Atlanta’s Hispanic population boom, according to Census Bureau estimates released today.
Mexicans and Mexican-Americans accounted for roughly 270,000 ”” or 65 percent ”” of the region’s 420,000 Hispanics in 2005. Nearly half the people of Mexican descent worked in construction. Another 21 percent had jobs in restaurants, retail stores and other service occupations.”
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