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| | Labor Urges Pardon for Illegal Workers |
 | | Unions in the state recruited 132,000 workers last year in organizing campaigns concentrated in the construction, home-care and service industries, job sectors that attract large numbers of undocumented workers. |
 | | While the new members might include those who are undocumented workers, the unions don't know because they don't ask about legal status, she said. |
 | | But with unions straining to organize more workers, labor officials have concluded that current immigration rules, with their threat of deportation, have made it hard to unionize industries that hire many illegal immigrants, like apparel, chicken-processing and hotels. |
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