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A Strong, but Divisive, Voice for Immigrants – Ricardo Juarez

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Posted on: August 27th, 2007
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“Twelve years ago, Ricardo Juarez was an unemployed government clerk standing in the dark on a riverbank outside Eagle Pass, Tex. He had no particular American dream in mind, he says, no vision of white picket fences or the Liberty torch. The youngest male in a of 12 siblings, Juarez was mostly thinking about food. He and a group of other migrants set their inner tubes into the swirling blackness of the Rio Grande and let the current carry them across.

Juarez washed up in Woodbridge two weeks later. His brother Alex helped him find work in construction — digging ditches, lugging sacks of cement, driving nails. was booming. But Juarez was more eager to organize immigrant laborers than be one.”

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