Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Mass. banker to match immigrants' college savings

A wonderful story about this man who is helping immigrant families save for their kids' college expenses and then matches what they saved. - - Donna Poisl

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press

CHELSEA, Mass. — It started with an immigration raid four years ago.

From his Melrose home, Bob Hildreth watched the aftermath of federal immigration agents storming a New Bedford, Mass., leather factory and netting 350 suspected illegal immigrant workers from Guatemala and El Salvador. The event drew national attention when news reports showed the small children of some the detainees being cared for by strangers.

It also motivated the Boston banker and philanthropist "into action."
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