day labor

“In response, I immediately directed the Los Angeles County Office of Immigrant Affairs to connect with the Pomona Day Labor Center to ensure those impacted receive the support and resources they need,” she said in a statement.

The raid occurred about 8:30 a.m. and involved both marked and unmarked vans, according to the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, a nonprofit day labor organization.

Two in three workers in the region were in informal employment in 2023, such as day labor, lacking the kinds of protections that come from formal jobs.

At the front of the room, an easygoing, bearded man named Fred DuBon — who used to show up at Casa Latina for day labor, and now manages its worker center — scans the members’ cards before they go into the big lottery jug: the kind of five-gallon plastic cylinder you’d see on top of a water cooler, except with its top cut off.

Children find roofing work through churches, in Facebook groups and at day labor sites, where workers of all ages gather in the mornings in hopes of being chosen for jobs.