Latino Community Divided over Boycott Plan

NPR | By Rob Schmitz

Published April 30, 2006 at 8:00 AM EDT

A day laborer in Annandale, Va., reads a flier on April 29, 2006, for a nationwide boycott planned for May 1st.

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