Immigration Law Slows A Family's March Forward

This story was on NPR this week, telling how legal immigrants with businesses are being hurt by the harsh laws of some of the states. This also means the state doesn't get as much in taxes, etc.   - - Donna Poisl

by KATHY LOHR

Immigrant success stories are closely woven into the concept of the American dream. In South Carolina, two generations of an immigrant family have worked hard to live out their dreams, but anti-illegal immigration laws have put even legal immigrants like them on edge.

Working Upon Arrival
Angel Cruz became a field worker in the Dominican Republic when he was just 8 years old. He came to New York in 1964 when he was 25 and went on to do a variety of jobs — from making coat hangers to sanding cabinets in a factory. He worked in landscaping and as a carpenter. It was hard, he says.
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