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    :: Sunday, October 26, 2003 ::

    Cleaner at Wal-Mart Tells of Few Breaks and Low Pay By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
    Wal-Mart officials said that the raid surprised them, and that they had no idea the company's cleaning contractors used illegal immigrants.

    They acknowledged yesterday that 10 immigrants arrested on Thursday in Arizona and Kentucky were employed directly by Wal-Mart. Company officials said they had brought these workers in-house after certain stores phased out the use of the contractors for whom the immigrants had worked.
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