Day laborers abandon former vocations - No matter what their livelihood at home, here, it is just work — when they can find it

The day laborers wait by a convenience store beneath a giant mural of Captain America, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk.

Back home, such a group of heroes might have been the cast of characters for a Christmastime “Baile de los disfraces,” or dance of the disguises, in which costumed partygoers bounce buoyantly to marimba music on the village square.

But not here, said Pedro, 25.”*

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