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Posted on Tue, Dec. 23, 2003 By Gale M. Bradford Special to the Star-Telegram WEATHERFORD - Fifteen wet, cold undocumented immigrants were found padlocked in the back of a refrigerated 18-wheel tractor-trailer rig Monday after a state trooper stopped the truck on Interstate 20 for not having mud flaps, the Department of Public Safety reported. The trailer, loaded with produce in addition to 15 men and women, had an interior temperature of 36.8 degrees, trooper Joey Evans said. "He picked them up in El Paso. They'd probably been in there about 10 hours," Evans said. "They were very cold, wet...

Boycott by immigrants urged STATEWIDE ACTION PUSHED FOR FRIDAY TO PROTEST DRIVER'S LICENSE LAW REPEAL The message to Latino immigrants in the Bay Area and around California is sweeping: Keep your kids home from school Friday, don't go to work and stay away from stores. The unprecedented request, made by immigrant advocates to protest the repeal of a law that would have allowed illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses, is intended to show state leaders the collective economic and social clout of California's growing immigrant population. While it's impossible to measure the success or failure of the daylong economic...