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Ramon Castillo Aparicio explains why he is an undocumented worker Juan Ignacio Gutiérrez discusses his viewpoint of the protests against undocumented workers
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The Austin City Council voted in June 1999 to relocate its downtown day labor site to the Morningside/Ridgetop neighborhood by August 1999. This move sparked protests from local residents and businesses. The workers’ protested the proposed location of a new site in north Austin. It was too far from where most of them lived, in largely immigrant communities in south and east Austin. Moreover, there were no bus lines from their neighborhoods to the proposed site, where they needed to arrive by 5:30 a.m.
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