Construction skid sidelines Latino immigrant workers – California
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Latino immigrants like Espinosa, legal and illegal, were the backbone of California’s housing boom, and they are feeling the pain of what Espinosa calls “una recesion.”
As housing and the economy in general cools, other less lucrative jobs also are in shorter supply, upping competition for low-paying work in factories, restaurants and other services – even for jobs in the fields.
These days in Sacramento, many of the immigrants who gather outside a gas station on Martin Luther King Boulevard – hoping for a day labor job – say they once had steady, good-paying construction work.”*
*From: www.sacbee.com
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