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KC CURRENTS 11-19-06

By Sylvia Maria Gross and Alex Smith

Kansas City, MO – Members of the Missouri House of Representatives and immigrants rights supporters discuss immigration legislation in Missouri next year. Hear about the military's recruitment of illegal immigrants. And, Kansas City poet Mbembe Milton Smith is remembered 24 years after his untimely death. Plus, Miguel "Mambo" DeLeon, leader of El Mambo Orquestra, talks about latin music in Ohio and Kansas City.

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