The Defender

When hundreds of illegals were arrested in New Bedford, torn away from their families and sent to Texas to be deported, Robert Hildreth decided that that wasn't the America he was proud of. So he acted.

(Photograph by Yoon S. Byun)

By Charles P. Pierce

December 21, 2008

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