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This week on NOW:
An explosion in immigration, most of it illegal, has caught many
communities in America off guard. NOW travels to North Carolina, which
has one of the fastest-growing Hispanic communities in the nation. The
report examines how local employers say they can't live without their
immigrant labor, but local officials say they can't shoulder the costs
in education, law enforcement and other community services.
Born to mining parents in a poor, neglected section of Arizona, Rueben
Martínez went to Santa Ana, California to open a barbershop. How a
barbershop became a bookstore and how a barber became a crusader for
literacy is the inspirational story of a man dedicated to making his
community better. David Brancaccio interviews Martínez and visits
Líbrería Martínez Books and Art Gallery where Martínez motivates
Spanish-speaking people to value literature, to read for themselves, and
to read to their children. In 2004, Martínez was awarded a prestigious
MacArthur Grant for his personal commitment to helping low-income
children fall in love with books.
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