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Latino immigration reformers: ignoring conventional wisdom, Americans of Hispanic descent are at the forefront in the battle against illegal immigration.(IMMIGRATION)
Lupe Moreno and Angie Morfin Vargas grew up the daughters of a bracero. Their father was one of the five million temporary contract guest workers who crossed the U.S./Mexican border between 1942 and 1964 to work in America's agricultural fields. Like many other braceros, Jesus "Jesse" Morfin periodically returned to Mexico, but ultimately settled in the United States. With his American-born wife and their four children, Morfin lived a dual life--publicly a hard-working immigrant, privately a smuggler of illegal aliens.
Lupe Moreno helped her father run a safe house for illegal immigrants, in addition to attending school, running a household, and toiling in the ...
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