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How did dozens of illegal immigrants end up shoveling snow at Gillette?

01:00 AM EST on Sunday, January 31, 2010

By Karen Lee Ziner



Carlos J. Escobedo, consulate general of Guatemala, right, hands out numbers for those wanting to be interviewed by lawyers provided by the consulate at a January meeting in Providence regarding the snow-shoveling incident in Foxboro.



Four days before the New England Patriots’ playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens, 60 Guatemalan day workers headed in a caravan from Providence toward Gillette Stadium, prepared to shovel out the world-class home of one of the most valuable football franchises in the country.

The team’s road to the Super Bowl — and nearly 70,000 seats — had to be first cleared of snow.

But early on Jan. 6, federal immigration agents targeting “specific fugitives from deportationâ€