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The law simply will not be effective in cutrailing determined criminals, and will only make day-laborers reluctant to come here (say goodbye to low produce prices).
Natl. Poll: More favor than oppose Arizona immigration law 2010
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The father loves his son; that's why he's breaking his back working to keep food on the table, and trying to remain invisible -- easy enough in LA, where we pass by the bizarre site of jornaderos, day-laborers, standing on the corner weighting for strangers to pick them up, "hoin' themselves," as the son says, every day.
Chris Weitz: A Better Life: A Way To Talk About Immigration Chris Weitz 2011
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Grizzled 'sour-dough boys,' day-laborers at the mines but proud of their degree, either patronized the spruce-looking tenderfeet and lied eloquently - the
The Wife of a King 2010
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The father loves his son; that's why he's breaking his back working to keep food on the table, and trying to remain invisible -- easy enough in LA, where we pass by the bizarre site of jornaderos, day-laborers, standing on the corner weighting for strangers to pick them up, "hoin' themselves," as the son says, every day.
Chris Weitz: A Better Life: A Way To Talk About Immigration Chris Weitz 2011
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The father loves his son; that's why he's breaking his back working to keep food on the table, and trying to remain invisible -- easy enough in LA, where we pass by the bizarre site of jornaderos, day-laborers, standing on the corner weighting for strangers to pick them up, "hoin' themselves," as the son says, every day.
Chris Weitz: A Better Life: A Way To Talk About Immigration Chris Weitz 2011
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First, is that it criminalizes day-laborers without specifying that they are illegals.
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Grizzled 'sour-dough boys,' day-laborers at the mines but proud of their degree, either patronized the spruce-looking tenderfeet and lied eloquently - the
The Wife of a King 2010
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First, is that it criminalizes day-laborers without specifying that they are illegals.
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The father loves his son; that's why he's breaking his back working to keep food on the table, and trying to remain invisible -- easy enough in LA, where we pass by the bizarre site of jornaderos, day-laborers, standing on the corner weighting for strangers to pick them up, "hoin' themselves," as the son says, every day.
Chris Weitz: A Better Life: A Way To Talk About Immigration Chris Weitz 2011
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For decades Israel occupied Gaza reducing its people to total dependency as day-laborers in Israel.
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