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Immigration Hits ‘Critical Mass’ in NC

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[quote]Rapid influx of Hispanics, most of them illegal, creating tensions

By Rick Martinez

December 12, 2005

RALEIGH — At both the federal and state levels, the policy and rhetorical battle on immigration is, in the words of one North Carolina member of Congress, reaching “critical massâ€