The Hunt for Work Fosters Tension - Black Residents, Latino Laborers In the Middle - Washington DC

Posted on: January 26th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Business ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Washington DC ]
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“Regina James says she drives past Rhode Island Plaza every weekday morning and has mixed feelings at the sight of more than 100 Latino men waiting for day-labor jobs in the Home Depot parking lot.

The increasing number of laborers, some of whom residents say leave trash on the ground and urinate along a nearby barrier wall, has heightened tension and stirred mistrust between the Latinos and the mostly black residents of the working-class Brentwood neighborhood in Northeast.”

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