day laborer
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The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
The day laborer center is more than just a workplace, said Jose, who asked to withhold his last name for fear of retaliation by immigration agents.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
Ricardo, who earns a meager income as a day laborer, shares his small single-family house with 18 other people, including his three children, parents and other extended family.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
He also said he would sell food to raise money to take Chris and the children of a day laborer who was detained during the bus stop operation to Disneyland.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2025
I worked as day laborer and raised two boys and two girls and the boys is farmin' right here in the county and doin' well.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
