U.S. Citizens Joining Immigrant Day Laborers

Wednesday, November 04, 2009
(photo: Laguna Journal)

A new face has begun appearing alongside the immigrant day laborers outside home improvement stores: Caucasian-Americans. Las Vegas was one of the first cities to note the new trend, brought on by a local unemployment rate of almost 14% that has made it tough to find jobs. Non-Hispanic workers also have been seen outside stores like Home Depot in Silver Spring, Maryland, Long Island, New York, and in parts of Southern California.

 
“It’s the equivalent of selling apples in the Great Depression,” Harley Shaiken, chairman of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Las Vegas Sun.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
 
The New Faces of Day Labor (by Timothy Pratt, Las Vegas Sun)
More White Workers Using Day Labor Center (by Nancy Woods, KATU.com, Portland, OR)

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