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METROPOLITAN DESK Day Laborers' Lawsuit Casts Spotlight on a Nationwide Conflict By FERNANDA SANTOS The 36-year-old Mexican man has lived in Mamaroneck for eight years, trekking each morning to Columbus Park near the village center to wait for contractors who might pay him $10 an hour at best. But the village closed the hiring site in the park in February, and after that, he testified in court here last week, the police often chased away the employers with tickets, and the workers with fear. <p> ''An officer stands very close, sometimes within a foot or 18 inches, to where I or a group of day laborers stand,'' the man told a judge, speaking through a Spanish translator. ''He crosses his arms and stares at us for long periods of time until we eventually feel compelled to change our location. <p>

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