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“Underneath the horn riffs and conga beats of Latin fusion band Pablo Antonio y La Firma, there was tension at the 14th annual La Fiesta del Pueblo.
Attendance for the two-day festival was down from the 26,000 who participated in 2006, Marisol Jimenez McGee, El Pueblo’s director of advocacy, said Sunday. Actual attendance numbers will not be available until later this week.
“We’re hearing a lot of fear and tension in the community,” Jimenez McGee said. “We definitely had people telling us that immigration [enforcement agents] was coming to the festival.”"
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