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Article: Immigrant Advocates Open Office in Broward County, Fla.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- January 27, 2003
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By Tanya Weinberg, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 27--On a recent afternoon, Julio Taylor came back to the Miami offices he credits with saving his life.
This time, he only needed help replacing a Social Security card, but Taylor recalled how the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center ended his eight years of homelessness.
"I'll never forget them," Taylor said in Spanish. "If not for them, I would probably still be on the streets. I'd probably be dead."
Although he had the right to legal residency, the mentally disabled Cuban immigrant had no papers, and so no proof. Like thousands of others ...