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Once Packed With Day Laborers, A Chicago Hiring Corner Empties Out Under Immigration Crackdown

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By Aydali Campa, Camilla Forte
| Block Club Chicago Verified
This story was originally published by Borderless Magazine. Sign up for its newsletter to learn the latest about Chicago’s immigrant communities. OLD IRVING PARK — Almost every morning, Gualberto Olac unlocks his bike and pedals toward the corner of Belmont and Milwaukee Avenues. It is the same corner in Avondale he’s been visiting for over two decades, since he was 17.
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Once Packed with Day Laborers, a Chicago Hiring Corner Empties Out Under Immigration Crackdown

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By Aydali Campa, Camilla Forte
| Borderless Mag Verified
This year, only about a dozen or fewer people have been waiting for work at the site at a time. Olac remembers watching for trucks offering day jobs in roofing, painting, dishwashing or moving furniture. If he was lucky, he would get picked up for a second job at the same site after finishing a gig in the morning. But in the last year, that’s changed.
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Una esquina de contratación en Chicago, antes repleta de jornaleros, se vacía bajo la represión a la inmigración

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By Aydali Campa, Camilla Forte
| Borderless Mag Verified
La mayor presencia policial se ha convertido en una barrera adicional para los jornaleros en el lugar, quienes ya tenían dificultades para encontrar trabajo con más regularidad desde la Operación Midway Blitz. “Algunos días funciona y otros días no”, dijo Gudiel Pérez, un inmigrante guatemalteco y jornalero en el lugar. Pérez solía tener dos trabajos de un par de horas cada día, quizás incluso un tercero si tenía suerte. Ahora, lo recogen un promedio de dos veces por semana.
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