Advocates Say Illegal Workers Suffer After 9/11 Cleanup
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Jose Moncada watched the World Trade Center towers tumble, and, like so many Americans, felt a patriotic urge to help rescue survivors and rebuild after Sept. 11. "It was my time to put my hand on my heart," he said. "It was my time to help somebody."
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER  NEW YORK - The former Environmental Protection Agency chief should not be blamed for telling residents near the World Trade Center site that the area was safe after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the government told an appeals court Thursday.
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By ALEX CUKAN  Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes with a wet rag.
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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to launch its final Sept. 11 contamination cleanup program next month, more than five years after the attacks and following years of criticism that the agency still has not done enough.
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Advocates working on behalf of illegal immigrants said they learned a lesson from the immigrant rights marches that fizzled over the Labor Day holiday: It's time to start driving.
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For many of the employees of the state and federal agencies, the memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero.
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High levels of asbestos, lead and other contaminants have been found in a vacant skyscraper badly damaged during the 2001 terror attacks, potentially complicating the rebuilding of ground zero.
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More than two dozen illegal immigrants were picked up for deportation as part of an immigration sweep targeting contractors at a U.S. Navy base in Southern California.
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Immigration officials raided a trash hauling company northeast of Houston on Wednesday, and local media said dozens of workers were rounded up.
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The Bush administration was accused of ignoring the health problems that arose among workers who toiled at ground zero and the claims of downtown residents who say they were also sickened by the dust.
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Work will begin Friday to dismantle a vacant, contaminated skyscraper that has loomed above ground zero since Sept. 11, 2001, when one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed into it, officials said Thursday.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A new congressional report says the Environmental Protection Agency potentially exposed scores of residents, volunteers and workers to asbestos fibers by not doing more to monitor the contaminant in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina.
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In far smaller numbers than they did this spring, supporters of illegal immigrants marched in several U.S. cities Monday, calling for them to be given the chance to live and work freely in the United States.
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Many illegal immigrants in the United States are manual laborers on low wages. But there's another group that attracts much less attention: entrepreneurs who have set up businesses, created jobs and grown affluent.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months  after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material  from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World  Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is  also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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The California fires exposed the often-invisible existence of illegal immigrants in ways that were sometimes deadly.
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Dozens of lawsuits brought by the families of 9/11 victims against airlines, security companies and other parties are moving toward a trial.