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Article: Mexicans line up for ID cards, passports They help immigrants travel, obtain citizenship, open bank accounts.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2005
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Byline: Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz Daily Herald Staff Writer
A row of Mexican consulate workers sat below whirring fans Wednesday at a Carpentersville church, tapping on laptop keyboards as 200 people, wiping away beads of sweat, inched closer in a slow line.
It was 12:30 p.m., and Margarita Espinoza had been waiting almost five hours at Iglesia San Esteban Martir to get her Mexican passport.
"I want it so I can go to Mexico and come back," said Espinoza, 40, who works at a hotel and has lived in Carpentersville for 14 years.
Antonio Garrido, 29, also was waiting for a passport, but not for travel. Garrido, who works at a factory and a restaurant and has lived in ...