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Anti-immigration activist hired illegal aliens

By Jyoti Thottam

The Maspeth anti-immigration activist whose billboards have earned him citywide notoriety admitted last week that he had employed illegal immigrants in two East Village restaurants.

Craig Nelsen, 39, erected his first anti-immigration billboard in Sunnyside, a few months after selling his stake in the San Loco restaurant at 151 Avenue A that he co-owned with his brother. The pair ran another San Loco on Second Avenue from 1986 to 1989. Nelsen acknowledged that the restaurants relied on immigrant labor but said the federal government