Is Hazleton debate sparking a new civil rights movement?
Tagged: judge, Pennsylvania, Spanish-languagePosted on: September 12th, 2007“A month and a half after a federal judge struck down a local ordinance aimed at curtailing the rights of undocumented immigrants, tensions between the two sides of the issue persist in Hazleton, Pa.
“The town was divided, and it is still divided,” said Amílcar Arroyo, 58, president of El Mensajero, a Spanish-language regional paper based in Hazleton, a blue-collar city of 22,000 people just 135 miles west of New York City.”
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