Radio Story on Migrant “Boomtown”

Altar’s tortilla flophouse

The town of Altar is an increasingly common staging ground for illegal immigrants from Mexico and Latin America preparing for their journey to the United States. Claudine Lomonaco reports on this migrant boomtown. Listen to the audioclip to this American Public Media story at

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/03/17/PM200603177.html

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