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They hire day laborers to pick the apples.
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Everyday residents have protested immigration operations with rallies, marches and walkouts, and have monitored areas where day laborers are known to gather.
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Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
Days later, in Los Angeles, Home Depot parking lots—long informal hiring sites for day laborers—again became flashpoints for enforcement actions and community backlash.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
The roving raids targeting car washes, parking lots where day laborers gather and garment factories disrupted immigrant communities throughout the region for weeks in June and July.
—City News Service, Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
Pablo Alvarado in the National Day Laborer Organizing Network said to me that often the first people into a disaster, the second responders after the first are the day laborers.
—Tonya Mosley, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
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Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
Days later, in Los Angeles, Home Depot parking lots—long informal hiring sites for day laborers—again became flashpoints for enforcement actions and community backlash.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
The roving raids targeting car washes, parking lots where day laborers gather and garment factories disrupted immigrant communities throughout the region for weeks in June and July.
—City News Service, Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
Pablo Alvarado in the National Day Laborer Organizing Network said to me that often the first people into a disaster, the second responders after the first are the day laborers.
—Tonya Mosley, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
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“Day laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20laborer. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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