Machete slays cut short immigrants' American dream

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:54 AM EDT


MOUNT HOLLY β€” Alex Aguilar left his family and farm-hand job in Honduras seven years ago to pursue a better life, eventually finding work cleaning stables and feeding thoroughbreds six days a week at a New Jersey horse farm. His mother worried for him.

β€œIt was a tremendous sadness for us all, but it was especially hard for her to say goodbye,β€