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New migrant work force struggles to survive
The Star Tribune found that squalid housing is just one burden for the state's new wave of migrant workers. Miserable living conditions have led to tragedy for some workers. Since 1991, 13 Hispanic food-processing workers and their children have died in residential fires, most linked to unsafe housing.
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