This article was co-published with La Opinión, the leading Spanish-language news outlet in the U.S., and produced under the California Local News Fellowship program at the University of Berkeley.
It is early in the morning when José, a day laborer who prefers not to reveal his full name for security reasons, waits outside a Home Depot store in Orange County to be hired.
While sharing coffee and bread with an advocacy group patrolling the store’s parking lot, he tells us that in recent months, it has not been easy to go out and look for work…