Word: oltman
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...Marin County town of San Rafael, north of San Francisco, "every day, a few hundred day laborers line the city streets," says Rick Oltman, leader of the Marin Immigration Reform Association. "They come here and live 15 or 20 in an apartment and work one day a week." Last week the city council shelved a plan to build a $175,000 job center for the day laborers. The center, says Oltman, "would just encourage more to come here...
...vehement opponents of illegal immigration profess the highest regard for those who come to the U.S. legitimately and even view them as potential allies. "If you came here and obeyed the laws, then you should be on our side, because these people compete with the legal immigrant population," says Oltman, the Marin County leader. He adds that his own wife is an immigrant -- from Belgium...
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