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Welcomed home

A minor when factory was raided, now a legal resident

By Maria Sacchetti
Globe Staff / December 15, 2007

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NEW BEDFORD - At first, he thought the factory was on fire. Eliseo Garcia was churning out military backpacks last March at the Michael Bianco Inc. leather-goods factory when panicked workers started racing for the exits. But instead of smoke, he saw federal immigration agents. He thought the odyssey that had delivered him from a tiny village in Guatemala to ... (Full article: 818 words)

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