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“Coming to America, to clean” was published in Harper’s Magazine and in an issue of the San Diego Reader, in 1993.

Harper’s Magazine is a monthly publication in the US covering topics related to literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. The magazine has a liberal orientation. Consequently, some receivers are the American readers of the magazine who purchased it in 1993.

The San Diego Reader is a newspaper which is distributed for free in San Diego. Consequently, people in San Diego were also receivers of the text.

The topic of the text – illegal immigration to the US from Mexico— suggests that potential readers of the text could be US and Mexican authorities, American who employ illegal immigrants and Mexicans in the US (legal or undocumented). The text also includes direct references to some of the...