NEW BEDFORD — In the snowy quiet of an early Sunday morning, the day after the big January storm, a Ford passenger van pulled up to Riverside Park in New Bedford.A group of men — mostly young, Spanish-speaking immigrants, numbering perhaps 15 or 16 — piled in. Some or all did not know the driver, or who had hired him, but they'd heard someone was paying $180 cash for a day of shoveling snow on Cape Cod.They worked all day. Then, not long after dusk, a [...]
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