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

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

That’s when the day laborer took out his phone and started to record.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Pedro Vásquez Perdomo, a day laborer who is one of the plaintiffs on the Southern California case challenging racial profiling by immigration enforcement, has said the case is bigger than him.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

I like the idea of being a day laborer and associating with laborers.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore