Day Laborers Squeezed on Two Sides
Tagged: day laborers, VirginiaPosted on: October 9th, 2007“By sunup every day last month, the parking lot between a filling station and a paint store in Fairfax County was scattered with Latino men, many wearing clean white shirts and pants in hopes of landing a day’s work painting apartment walls. They yawned, joked and sipped coffee, but their faces were hard with worry.
“I have never seen so many men out here before or so few trucks,” said Vicente Crespo, 37, a Salvadoran who shares an apartment with six other Latino immigrants, five of them in the country illegally. “A year ago, I was working all month and getting $15 an hour. Now, if I’m lucky, I get a job for a few hours and they pay $10.”"
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Immigration
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