By MALCOLM GARCIA The Kansas City Star
Guillermo Alvidrez stood inside the Westside CAN Center, (22nd & Jefferson, KC MO) clutching his cold hands beneath his chin to warm them.He had been outside hoping for someone to drive up and offer him some work, but, as in previous days, no one had. Around him, other day laborers huddled in groups talking, bored and bumming cigarettes. Alvidrez engaged in small talk with little interest.
“My cousin went back to Mexico in January,” said Alvidrez, 44. “Not me. There’s no work there either.”
More and more, day laborers in the metro area are finding it hard if not impossible to find steady work, a stark turnaround from recent years, when the housing boom and a bustling economy provided regular jobs.
Now, with the competition for jobs increased by workers laid off from full-time jobs, they face the hard choice of returning to their native countries or toughing it out here.
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2 comments:
This argument is getting old, they come here to work but they bring the whole damn family and reproduce at our expense.The illegals are the problem with low wages and the more of them the more wages go down.DUH I support jobs that have seasonal work and at the end they must go home to be eligible to come back the next year. Now is the time to worry about your Legal Neighbor and not the illegals that are soaking the system. Leave your family and home and don't depend on us to provide for them since you can't, the more of you just makes all wages go down.
Is KC a "Sanctuary City"? Call the Mayor and tell him that you are going to notify the new Attorney General.
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