DENVER — Newly arriving migrants have been doing anything they can to earn some quick cash to get by, including offering to wash windshields at several intersections in Denver.
But Denver Police is now starting to crack down on those folks, saying it’s dangerous for them to be in the roadways.
Denver7 spoke with Jhonny Paez from Venezuela, who said in Spanish that he was recently cited while he was out trying to earn some money to feed his family.
Paez said he, his wife and two children arrived in Denver in December and have been staying at a local shelter .
He said he decided to go out and offer windshield washing about two weeks ago, when his two young kids weren’t wanting to eat the food being offered at the shelter.
“The only way for them to eat, was to go get $15, $20, $30, whatever we could,” Paez said.
Paez added that on a good day, he could earn around $70 at most, working from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
But on his fourth day of washing windows, on Jan. 26, Paez said he was stopped by Denver police while he was washing someone’s windows.