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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 ::

    Can fence be built without immigrants? - By Aaron Nelsen, The Brownsville Herald, TX
    With 670 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border fence slated for completion by year's end, construction companies in Texas are questioning the feasibility of completing such a project without immigrant labor.

    The irony is not lost on businesses that have come to rely heavily on foreign-born and Hispanic workers to fill vacancies left by a shrinking domestic labor pool.
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