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
He chatted with a day laborer who stopped by to grab a snack, and explained they were there to film any interactions with federal agents, as part of their national rapid-response effort.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 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
Across the Thames Burns pointed to some factories, saying: "There is where my father worked as a day laborer, and where I worked."
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
