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-------------------- Debit cards for immigrants --------------------

Workers without Social Security numbers can use the program to deposit paychecks, make purchases and send money home.

By Erika Hayasaki Times Staff Writer

February 20 2007

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Jose Manuel Aparicio had come up with all kinds of ways to stash his construction job wages: He slipped bills between pages of books hidden in his bedroom closet and stuffed money into an old sock in his laundry — places thieves weren't likely to look.

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