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1 Hartnell Student Found, Another Goes Missing

SALINAS, Calif. -- The same week a missing Hartnell College basketball player was found, another Hartnell College student from Salinas vanished.

Samuel Chavez, 20, of Salinas, has not been seen or heard from since July 13, police said.

Chavez, who was enrolled in Harntell's summer session, was last seen leaving from his family's house in a light brown 1999 Honda Accord with the California license plate 4GMV477.

"His family normally does not go two days without hearing from him," police Detective Michael Rivera said.

While police announced Chavez's disappearance, Preston Dee Anderson's tracks surfaced in Central America.

Investigators said they tracked the 25-year-old's debit card to a hotel in Belize and no longer consider him a missing person.

Hotel staff members confirmed that the 6 foot, 9 inch basketball player stayed there on Aug. 3 and 4 while traveling, Rivera said. Anderson was traveling alone in the Caribbean coast town of Corozal. He did not tell the hotel staff where his next destination was going to be.

Anderson went missing on July 23. Friends, family and co-workers said they were alarmed about his disappearance because Anderson is a highly reliable person who never missed a day of work at his two jobs.

The basketball player's roommate said he saw Anderson leave their Salinas house at 5 a.m., without his cellphone. He drove off on his black custom 2009 Yamaha 1100 motorcycle.

Police said they believe the Hartnell College student rode through California, Mexico and now Central America on his motorcycle to travel. Because Anderson is an adult and apparently traveling, investigators no longer consider him a missing person, Rivera said.

"We're hoping if he chooses to come back to the United States, he will be stopped at the border and advised that he was reported as a missing person," Rivera said.

Latino-Indigenous Mexican Divide Stirs Calif. Town | Mexico Travel ...

Down wind-swept El Camino Real, where women in shawls push strollers and old men in cowboy hats linger on dusty benches, farmworkers spill from white contractor buses. From the main drag, it’s only blocks to the fields and vineyards that sustain this peaceful town in the Salinas Valley, “the Salad Bowl of the World.”

But there’s tension in this part of John Steinbeck Country.

Nearly all of Greenfield’s 16,300 people are Latino – and yet an ugly conflict has been brewing between longer-time residents and newcomers from another part of Mexico. Established residents say a massive influx of migrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca has changed their city for the worse.

Over the past decade, the migrants – Triquis, Mixtecs and other indigenous people who streamed from small mountain villages to Greenfield to plant and pick crops – spurred Greenfield’s growth and now make up about a third of the town’s population. (They represent up to 30 percent of farmworkers in California and 17 percent nationwide, the U.S. Department of Labor says.)

They speak their own languages, not Spanish, they keep their own customs, such as arranged marriages, and, despite a longstanding tradition of sanctuary and tolerance in Greenfield, they remain separate.

In a town feeling heavily pressured by the economic crisis and gang activity, the influx of Oaxacans and their lack of understanding of U.S. customs has led to an ethnic clash.

It’s a new round in a conflict as old as the United States, in which successive waves of immigrants have often feuded with each other.But what happens in Greenfield is distinct, in part because the split pits by immigrants rooted in the same country, but also because of the hard part is forcing the city to take to himself.

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Rachel Ortiz has become so unhappy with new migrants who, after more than five decades in Greenfield, she left her cul-de-sac home and moved to Salinas, 30 miles.

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