<p>Last week, a California <a id="mg0x" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340272,00.html" target="_blank" title="wrestling promoter">wrestling promoter</a> put on a match to raise funds for immigrants arrested in a raid.&nbsp; He brought in $4,000.<font color="#0000ff">&nbsp; </font>Two days earlier, a <a id="tmz-" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120589144850147397.html?mod=blog" target="_blank" title="Boston millionaire">Boston millionaire</a> had put up $200,000 to bail out 40 factory workers arrested in an immigration raid last March.&nbsp; (Sign of the times: they were making vests and backpacks for U.S. soldiers in the Middle East.)<br />

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The 40 immigrants, among 361 arrested at the time, were to be sent to Texas to await deportation — unless they posted bail.&nbsp; They got the money from an unexpected benefactor, Bob Hildreth, who had lived in Bolivia and made his money trading Latin American bonds.&nbsp;&nbsp; Hildreth has already given several million dollars for literacy and citizenship classes in Lynn, Mass.; for a preschool in an Boston neighborhood with many immigrant residents, and for an endowed chair in Latin American studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. <br />

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Hildreth said that breaking up these families was &quot;extremely un-American.&quot;<br />

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That’s not what everyone thought.&nbsp; A local talk-radio show said, &quot;I would ask him to show the same compassion for American workers displaced by these illegal aliens.&quot;&nbsp; That’s the kind of talk-radio show that does not mention off-shoring, or union-busting, or a foundering economy, in connection with jobs — at least not when blaming immigrants. And Hildreth can expect more of the same.&nbsp; A local lawyer who represents some of the immigrants warned, &quot;He’ll get hate mail.&quot;<br />

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As cases are resolved, Hildreth has gotten back some of the bail money he posted. He’s now putting it aside as a fund for future cases. &nbsp;<br />

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Maybe he can get some others to invest in the fund.</p>