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In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 photo, brothers Jorge Tume, left, and Francis Tume are shown in Miami. Tume’s parents brought them to the U.S. from Peru on tourist visas when they were young and decided to stay, becoming unauthorized immigrants with no legal status. Now, one year after President Barack Obama announced an executive order allowing young people living in the U.S. illegally to stay and work, nearly 300,000 young adults previously living illegally in the United States have been granted permission to stay and work through the program, the most significant shift in immigration policy in recent decades. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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MIAMI (AP) — As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami. When he was done, he'd take out the trash and help finish cleaning.
Tume's parents brought him to the U.S. from Peru with his younger brother when he was 12. They came on tourist visas and then stayed in th...
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Mike Barone (left) and Jeff Williams are both utility laborers with Rome’s Solid Waste Department. The city is celebrating Garbage Man Day today in recognition of those who collect trash, recycling and yard waste. (Alan Riquelmy / Rome News-Tribune)
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Jeff Williams and Mike Barone love what they do: picking up trash. “Pouring rain. That’s the best for me,” Williams said of his favorite working conditions. “When it’s 90 degrees and you get a pop-...
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