Word: amando
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amando Munoz, 28, a wiry migrant worker from Texas, was picking tomatoes on a farm near Lake Worth, Fla., when four agents of the U.S. Immigration Service swooped down on the field in a search for illegal immigrants. They asked Munoz for his identity papers, but he had lost his billfold and so he had nothing to show them. "I told them I was from Harlingen, Texas," Munoz recalls, "but they just said, 'Get in the truck...
...miles from Yucatan to Matamoros, just across the Rio Grande from the southern tip of Texas. There, he telephoned his sister Elvia, 19, a senior at Harlingen High School, and Elvia called her mother, Mrs. Ovidea Munoz, 53, a cleaning woman with six children. Mrs. Munoz snatched up Amando's baptismal certificate, got a ride in a friend's old car, and barreled off to the border to retrieve her son. "Don't cry, Mama, I'm back," said Amando. "Let me cry," said Mrs. Munoz...
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