ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates....
New Mexico Hero Who Saved Girl Says He's Illegal
By JERI CLAUSING, Associated Press
Fri, 08/19/2011 - 6:28pm
Topics: hero illegal immigration immigration
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