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Article

28 Jul 2002

Author:
Patrick Whittle, New Haven Register

Labor Pains [USA]

Not too many people care about Javier's problems. - He's an illegal immigrant earning about $100 a day at a Waterbury construction site. He's got no benefits or insurance, lives in a crowded hotel room with other illegal immigrants and sends nearly all his earnings to his family in Mexico. He's part of a vast sub-economy of people who travel great distances and break the law to work menial jobs most Americans don't want: cleaning crews, landscapers, movers, day laborers. If Javier gets hurt, becomes ill or has some other job-related problem, he's on his own.