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Construction Work: Torres and Farm Work

construction work: He appears shy, diminutive, not the kind you'd expect to take on the U.S. federal government, according to Metro News. But President Donald Trump's American has put many people in unlikely places in this case, made Torres a symbol of the undocumented immigrant's fight. At 32, he's muscled from years in construction work, yet short, perhaps only 5'5 with large brown eyes and a clipped beard. My daughters are my life, Torres told me on Wednesday. Wednesday marked 30 days until Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE officials planned to deport Torres, who came to America at the age of 18 and said he was soon trafficked into farm work, his immigration papers stolen. I'm fighting to stay here, side by side with my family. function set Cookie related path / ; Related Lives of anxiety Immigrants seek sanctuary in US churches Immigrants fear loss of humanitarian program under Trump'It's more like the big four now' Alberta increasingly popular among immigrants Moments before, on the stone steps of the First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans surrounded by heads of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths, TV crews, supporters and his wife, Torres a leader of a local immigrant worker's rights group announced he was taking sanctuary inside the church, for his family and on behalf of millions of undocumented families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.