Sonoma County’s job market still hasn’t recovered from the pandemic, and agriculture, the sector many day laborers rely on, is contracting. photo credit: Graton Day Labor Center
Day labor centers are reporting an uptick in people looking for work, despite immigration enforcement actions targeting these centers.
Karym Sanchez is the lead organizer at the Graton Day Labor Center, a worker‑run space where day laborers come to find work.
Sanchez said that even after federal agents raided day laborer centers in Southern California last summer, he knew immigrants would continue to show up…