The small crowd starts to shuffle off and a prim pensioner bustles up expectantly only to be told she's too late.

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Immigration became an issue in Herndon, a prim little town 1, 700 miles from Mexico, when the local council set up a centre for day labourers.

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Nudged up in the northeast of Switzerland, walled by mountains, the town and the surrounding hamlets abound with prim chalets, their window boxes overflowing in riotous reds and pinks.

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