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A press conference will be held at Rancho Cucamonga's City Hall demanding that immigrant day laborers receive the same police protection as all other residents in Rancho Cucamonga and Upland. We will discuss two recent incidents involving day laborers.
On May 9, 2007, near the corner of Grove Avenue and Arrow Highway between Rancho Cucamonga and Upland a sports utility vehicle approached and offered workers a job. Three accepted, entered the vehicle, and were taken to a location near the Ontario Convention Center. Here, these workers were joined by three other workers picked up at another, unknown, location. All six were placed in a different vehicle and their hands were tied. They were driven to Tijuana, Mexico, where they were abandoned. This information comes from one of the kidnapped men, who called his sister, an Upland resident, to explain what happened. His sister went to the Upland police department to file a report. Up
2007-05-17
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