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“The Utah mining accident has illustrated how increasing numbers of Hispanic immigrants are working the mines in this heavily white, mostly Mormon state.
Three of the six men trapped in Monday’s cave-in are from Mexico, according to the Mexican consulate.
“People come here because they know that there’s enough work to go around,” said Salvador Lazalde, a local Hispanic leader whose cousins work in a nearby open-pit copper mine and who worries that one of the trapped miners is from his hometown, a village in the Mexican state of Zacatecas.”
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