[CPEO-BIF] "Feelings Mixed on Move From Trailers"

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Sunday October 8 1:45 PM ET
Feelings Mixed on Move From Trailers 

By BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press Writer 

MALAGA, Calif. (AP) - With towering heaps of scrap metal rising in their
back yard, a Superfund waste site next door and a constant rumble from
nearby cranes, trains and automobiles, you'd think residents of the Tall
Trees Mobile Home Park would be happy to leave.

By the middle of the month, they must abandon their squalid $160-a-month
trailers for free homes or $30,000 in a settlement to clean up the adjacent
toxic site.

But for the 56 families - mostly Mixtec Indians, migrant farmworkers from
Mexico - there is a mix of emotions about leaving behind the most permanent
home they've known in the United States.

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