Latinos urge lawmakers to help ‘undocumented immigrants’

Latinos urge lawmakers to help ‘undocumented immigrants’

BOSTON – Activists marked International Migrants Day at the State House Friday by delivering a declaration pledging support for undocumented immigrants and calling on Beacon Hill leaders to join them in taking up the cause.

Representatives of Centro Presente, the Student Immigration Movement and the Brazilian Worker Center brought copies of the declaration to the offices of Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Stanley Rosenberg.

Lottery-fixing probe expands nationwide from Iowa
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Lottery-fixing probe expands nationwide from Iowa

Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs an undetectable software program in the computers that pick winning numbers so he can know them in advance. He enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. They enrich themselves for years until a misstep unravels the scheme.

But it was all too real, and today, investigators are fanning out across the nation to see how many state games were affected.

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