day laborer
Example Sentences
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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
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
A day laborer, who identified himself as Ceasar, said around 6:45 a.m. a yellow Penske truck pulled up to the laborers who had gathered in the parking lot.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
I have been a day laborer on the farm, railroad and hay field.
From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.
