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"day laborer" Definitions
  1. an unskilled worker paid by the day.

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It's true that many athletes come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and coaches like Judge may work them as hard as any day laborer, but they have advantages that the day laborer lacks.
That is half the minimum wage of an agricultural day laborer.
Maisuma Bibi, a day laborer making plastic handbags, survived the blaze.
Mulugeta Getahun, 32, studied architecture but works as a day laborer.
Shtewi scrapes by with occasional work as a porter or day laborer.
The response In the crowd were Harvey and fellow day laborer Kirby Sample.
His brother Mahmoud, a day laborer in Israel who speaks some Hebrew, intervened.
Now he was a construction day laborer, happily earning about $65 a day.
She lost four of her children to a cholera epidemic, but kept moving forward, working as a day laborer in the fields of her small village, as a chef in a hotel and, at age 105, as a day laborer again.
Officials say he was a day laborer who went to an Islamic religious school.
Her father, a day laborer named John DeMarco had been here for 18 years.
Since graduating from high school, Mr. Grayson has worked mostly as a day laborer.
The 49-year-old day laborer in Southern California has seen this happen before.
For months, she has been working out of a day laborer center in Pasadena.
"This is not over," Salvador Sarmiento, national organizer for the National Day Laborer Organization Network.
His mother is a day laborer, and the family subsists near the edge of poverty.
Satouf's 16-year-old son works as a day laborer and earns $8 a day.
Khan, who worked as a day laborer, was on his way to a construction site.
Mr. Trinidad, 35, suggested the name for the app — Jornalero, which means day laborer in Spanish.
" Emi Maclean, an attorney with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), called it "an extraordinary decision.
Her husband worked as a day laborer on fishing boats but earned too little to cover their expenses.
Shaker Mahmoud, a carpenter and day laborer, says he helped dig the well, funded by a local benefactor.
A lonely weatherman hires a day laborer to be his pal in John Butler's racially naïve buddy comedy.
Her family fled to Aden, and her husband is struggling to find occasional work as a day laborer.
Pablo Alvarado is the executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and a former TPS recipient.
They are workers at one of the largest day laborer stops in New York City, hoping to be hired.
It didn't matter if you were a day laborer or a record label executive, a banker, or a chef.
While he was living in his niece's basement, he told Business Insider that he worked as a day laborer.
"We all want to put an end to corruption," said Mohamed Ismail, a 26-year-old unemployed day laborer.
Day laborer Sayed Hassan told CNN he feared for his family and children, and wanted better security in Kabul.
Her husband, a day laborer, suffered heatstroke this year, missed a week's work, and, with it, a week's pay.
Anwara, 22, said her husband, a day laborer, was killed a few weeks earlier by Buddhist militias in her village.
Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said Thursday's press conference proves the need for sanctuary cities.
A poignant second story line follows the outsider artist Martín Ramírez, who crossed into the United States as a day laborer.
Her father, who works as a day laborer in Iran, left her and her younger brothers in Kabul with their uncle.
Emiliano, a 57-year-old undocumented day laborer from Honduras, says he knows many people assume he doesn't pay his taxes.
He is a day laborer who somehow fell into fame on his way to work and it impresses him not a whit.
Day laborer centers in Brooklyn and on Staten Island will also be testing the product, which is available in Spanish and English.
Jack hires Mike, an apparently down-and-out day laborer, for 20 bucks an hour, to help empty out a storage unit.
When the nets were done, he told me, he would rent a boat and hire a day laborer to work with him.
On Tuesday morning at El Centro's day laborer hiring center, only four men appeared for work; usually there would be 10 or 12.
She also sells milk and works as a day laborer to ensure there is a steady income to bring up her three daughters.
Elizabeth got the startled Harvest out of his car and into the bus; a day laborer Philip had hired switched places with Harvest.
Emiliano, a 57-year-old undocumented day laborer from Honduras, told me that he knows many people assume he doesn't pay his taxes.
Now imagine a day laborer who lives on the South Side of Chicago, he can't go a few miles to Indiana for a job.
"This war has destroyed everything," Mohammed Abdullah, a 50-year-old day laborer said, standing with several other men outside a covered central market.
For the last year, she's been unable to work in the fields as a day laborer (also her husband's livelihood), because her condition is worsening.
"It's typically through a friend of a friend who connects you to a contractor, or you go to a day laborer corner," Ms. Figueroa said.
Mr. Dar was a high school dropout working as a day laborer when he disappeared last March, said his father, Ghulam Hassan Dar, a farmer.
"For two days I didn't go out; I just didn't leave the house," said Joao, a day laborer on Staten Island who gave only his nickname.
But what he longs for is companionship, a desire that is temporarily satisfied when he hires a day laborer, Ernesto (Alejandro Patiño), to paint his deck.
Investigators found that the girl's stepfather, a day laborer in his early 20s, had raped her repeatedly when her mother went to work on construction sites.
The boy's father had left the capital of Borno State to find a job as a day laborer because there were few jobs in the city.
Karuna was a sinewy day laborer, and he had roamed far from the village in his younger days to work in iron foundries in Chennai and Hyderabad.
A single mom in Ohio or a day laborer in Texas should not be forced to pay more for their cars just to subsidize a Californian's Tesla.
After questioning, investigators arrested the cousin, a day laborer in his late 20s, who admitted to inserting his finger inside the infant girl's vagina, police officials said.
The daughter of a factory employee and a day laborer who travels hours each day to find work, there is little money to cook meals at home.
Take the former policeman, an increasingly bitter day laborer who now supports his family hauling bags of cement through the sprawling apartment blocks constantly under construction around Seoul.
Hind Adel Mohamed, a 30-year-old Cairo housewife, said her husband, a day laborer, cannot find work and rising prices mean she cannot feed her family properly.
According to the activists, Mr. Raigar lured Mr. Afrajul to a thinly populated area outside of Rajsamand, a midsize city, by promising him work as a day laborer.
Decha Shangkamanee, a day laborer in Khon Kaen, said he had voted against it because he disliked the junta, but did not expect the referendum to make much difference.
He made it as far as Libya when he ran out of funds, he told CNN, and smugglers sold him as a day laborer to make back a profit.
Doctors had yet to deliver the news to Nazir Ahmad, the boy's father, a day laborer in Pulwama, a district in southern Kashmir, but he already seemed to know.
The plan is for the app to spread to all 70 of the city's day laborer stops, and then to workers in all kinds of jobs across the country.
Alberto Carvalho, above, who rose from day laborer to superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, accepted an offer to become the next New York City schools chancellor.
Sure of their righteousness, the men let me tag along and observe their crimes: home invasions, assaults and the abduction of a gaunt day laborer with a speed habit.
"To me, more progress was made in two raise-your-hands questions than years of fighting," said Chris Newman, the legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
That, Dovey Johnson Roundtree knew, could have immense significance for her client, a feebleminded day laborer accused of one of the most sensational murders of the mid-20th century.
More than 20183,22018 people set to lose TPS in the next year and many are union members, said Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
But he made it as far as Libya when his funds ran out, he said, and smugglers sold him as a day laborer to make him pay back his debt.
Her father, then 68 years old, lost his entire life savings and was left little choice but to work as a day laborer earning just $5 a day, McWilliams said.
Her partner, a day laborer, was arrested and detained by immigration agents five years ago, but was allowed to stay in the country under supervision, Ms. de la Cruz said.
"Trump and ICE have again shown why we are right to kick ICE out of New York," said Nadia Marin, co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
"Modi had promised good days," Kaloo Kureshi, 38, a day laborer who says he voted for Mr. Modi in 2014, said at a tea stall in the town of Shamli.
According to the complaint, Brown, a 103-year Navy veteran, worked as a day laborer and helped build the sandwich shop where Billie was working at the time of her disappearance.
Avelica, a father of four, had lived in the United States for more than 25 years, according to a statement from Emi MacLean, an attorney for National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
A pesar de los contados éxitos, las nuevas organizaciones de defensa como la National Day Laborer Organizing Network y United We Dream no se han convertido en instituciones de influencia sostenida.
The mother was a day laborer, a tiny, dark-skinned woman who worked on a construction site, carrying cement mix back and forth all day in a basket on her head.
Originally from the neighboring state of Jalisco, he was earning 600 pesos ($13) a week as a day laborer when a friend phoned about work in Guanajuato that paid many times more.
Chris Newman, the general counsel for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, a pro-immigration group, said the Sanders proposal was the "gold standard" of progressive immigration proposals in the 2020 field.
"It's going to be a gift that the day laborers are going to give to the working class in America," said Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the national day laborer group.
Mr. Haq's eldest son, Zia ul-Haq, 23, was working as a day laborer in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan last summer when he got the call saying his father had been killed.
She doesn't come from much; she lives with her mom, who is a housekeeper, and her brother, who quit school to work as a day laborer, in a converted garage in San Diego.
"We don't look at it as just trying to get bodies in there," said Antonio Ramos, who started out as a day laborer for MaineWorks in 2012 and is now a project manager.
Jehada Guru, shown here as the goddess Amman, is one of the poorest people in his village: a day laborer and father of two, married to a woman who works in a bakery.
But the usually chatty girl – "a little parrot," in the words of her day-laborer father — kept weakening, so doctors transferred her to a larger government hospital once an ambulance became available hours later.
Livingston Kagasi, a lanky day laborer who donned a suit, a pressed shirt and a tie for the group interview, said that the local public school was an unappealing option for his son Rivival.
One day last week, he had spent the morning doing some paving work as a day laborer, bringing in less than $6 an hour, before stopping for something to eat at a homeless ministry.
According to investigators, John Robert Charlton, who has been described as a homeless day laborer, strangled Ingrid Lyne, a 40-year-old nurse and divorced mother-of-three, on the morning of April 9, 2016.
"In the early morning, I climbed up to the roof of my house and was stunned to see the Hadba minaret had gone," Nashwan, a day-laborer who lives near the mosque, said by phone.
But lawyers from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network stepped in, pressing local officials to call the field director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to voice their concerns and asking activists to do the same.
At the end of the 19th century, the inaugural Olympic congress felt it was discriminatory to prevent a day laborer from participating in a field event simply because he made his living by his hands.
Surrounded by the ballroom's arched windows, Ella falls in love with another patient, John Mulligan, an Irish day laborer who has been virtually silent since the death of his infant daughter and the collapse of his marriage.
Alejandro is a 49-year-old day laborer from Mexico who rents a room in Staten Island, to which he returns only at night to eat a dinner of oatmeal with milk and sugar, and then sleep.
The former worker, Esdras Marroquin Gomez, 34, had been a day laborer on the 300-acre horse farm owned by the woman, Lois Colley, whose body was discovered in a laundry room of her home on Nov.
Mr. Mercado, the New York coordinator for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said that his workers often stood on corners waiting for jobs and that in the wake of the election there had been some incidents.
Hinterland is hectic and unsystematic but often tonic, not least because few people who think this way have seen most of the places Neel has, let alone from the standpoints he has sometimes occupied—rioter, prisoner, day laborer.
"It's undocumented workers that are still in the fields, still in the factories, still the janitors in the buildings, still looking for work as day laborers," says S.G. Sarmiento, campaign director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
"Prosecutors say the motive for the killing stemmed from a dispute with the Colley family starting in 2012, while Gomez was a day laborer on the farm," according to a statement from the Westchester County District Attorney's Office.
A day laborer and mechanic in Staten Island told his 17-year-old son where the list of emergency contacts were, including the name of the guardian who would take responsibility for him and his two younger siblings.
"Despite his efforts to terrify people, a consensus is emerging that ICE itself constitutes a threat to public safety," Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, an advocacy group, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the immigration battle has produced no name-brand leaders, and despite sporadic successes, the new faces in advocacy, such as the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and United We Dream, have not developed into institutions of sustained influence.
"This is a crisis moment for hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers and families that don't have any sort of a basic work protections, like sick leave, like unemployment insurance," says Sarmiento of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
"They're cleaning up radiation in Fukushima, doing sometimes unsafe work, and yet they can't be proud of what they do or even considered legitimate workers," said Mitsuo Nakamura, a former day laborer who now heads a citizens' group supporting decontamination laborers.
Pay rises have more than halved and unemployment has shot up as many high-flying mine workers who once made A$200,000 ($145,000) a year with access to resort-style housing were forced to turn to low-paid day laborer jobs.
The Jornalero app began as a project of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, known as NICE, in Jackson Heights, and then expanded in scope when the group's parent organization, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, based in Los Angeles, secured more funding.
When Arizona Republicans passed S.B.1070 in 2010, Puente and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network began a national boycott that was estimated to cost Arizona over $200 million in canceled business conferences; 100,000 people marched against the bill in Phoenix.
"There is nothing more repugnant than the racist exploitation of tragedy and I think that people of California have a heightened sensitivity when that happens," said Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which pushed for the statewide legislation.
Alberto M. Carvalho, who rose from undocumented immigrant and day laborer to superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, has found a bigger stage: He will become the next New York City schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office announced on Wednesday.
Admitted to an engineering college in 224 in the then-capital, Yangon, he was forced to leave school after it was shut down in response to pro-democracy protests two years later, and he fled Myanmar to find work as a day laborer in Malaysia.
In December 2007, Eric, a day laborer now in his late 20s, who asked to be identified only by his first name, was living on the outskirts of Naku­ru with his wife and young daughters, in one of the shanty neighborhoods tourists don't see.
"We didn't come here to steal or cause problems; it's a shame they think we are criminals," said Placido Cruz, a day laborer from Honduras, who arrived in Tijuana this week as part of a group that splintered from the caravan and went on ahead.
"The state is taking concrete steps to protect its residents, including by making sure its resources and personnel are not being used to deport its residents," said Jessica Karp Bansal, the litigation director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which has advocated these policies.
This was the country where Virgil W. Hawkins worked as a day laborer in Lake County's grueling turpentine camps, alongside other blacks who were being exploited by a convict-lease system that thrived in the decades following the Civil War and ensured cheap labor for the industry.
Mr. Reza is an American of Mexican ancestry, a day-laborer organizer, military veteran and teacher, who has spent years in Phoenix being a thorn in the side of racist bureaucrats and law enforcement officials, especially Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the county's Trump-supporting, serial immigrant abuser.
Thenoon Younnes Abdullah, a middle-aged father with a bushy mustache, dyed brown, had spent the past couple of decades working as a day laborer, until his body gave out; to provide for his wife, Alaa, and their four children, he resorted to selling bootleg gasoline.
"Brooks, a 34-year-old day laborer currently on probation after pleading guilty to domestic battery, claims that his 'drunk' commentary on an unaltered Pelosi video had no connection to the now-infamous fake clip that premiered less than 15 minutes later," the Daily Beast reported.
Last month, on the 20th anniversary of the bill being signed into law, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and a range of advocacy groups sent a letter to former President Bill Clinton, asking him to sign a petition to bring Jose Alvarez back home.
"Judge Chen's ruling vindicates the brave struggle of TPS holders to defend the Constitution in the face of the Trump administration's discriminatory attack on this humanitarian program on which so many hundreds of thousands of people rely," Emi MacLean of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network said.
He said he lost seven close relatives in the recent fighting, but would gladly return home if there were peace and eke out a living as a farmer, as opposed to earning $3 or $4 a day selling pomegranates along the roadside or working as a day laborer.
He said that Mukesh's family had bribed the senior officers in the police station, but that it could not have happened without a vigorous effort by the village chief, Jahiruddin Mewati, to persuade Geeta's widowed mother, a day laborer from a village 30 miles away, to withdraw murder charges.
My piece featured scenes of distraught young people gathering on crowded intersections singing the national anthem — suddenly everyone was a terrified Iranian citizen rather than an aspiring guitarist or a day laborer or whatever they were the day before — and a screaming mother buying formula to stockpile from a supermarket.
In this respect, they call to mind Russo's terrific novel "Nobody's Fool" (1993), a panoramic and minutely observed book that did away not only with a conventional plot but also with any sort of easy resolution for its stubborn and charismatic protagonist, the day laborer Donald Sullivan, known as Sully.
Here's what is known about him so far, drawn from police reports and court documents: An ex-girlfriend told investigators that Charlton, who worked as a day laborer, spent his nights at a "shelter" in Seattle except for the two or so nights a week he spent at the ex-girlfriend's house, charging documents state.
In a quiet, quavering voice, Tay Thi Nguyen told the powerful women seated on either side of her about her painful school days in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: At age 7, as she worked the fields after school alongside her illiterate day-laborer parents, she hatched a plan to go to college and become a teacher.
We Found Shawn Brooks, the Guy Behind the Viral 'Drunk Pelosi' Video Meet Shawn Brooks: Brooks, a 34-year-old day laborer currently on probation after pleading guilty to domestic battery, claims that his "drunk" commentary on an unaltered Pelosi video had no connection to the now-infamous fake clip that premiered less than 15 minutes later.
"They're saying that [Hernandez] being in a house with people who LAPD asserts may have been gang-affiliated—without any other evidence—is enough to make her a priority for deportation," said Emi MacLean, a staff attorney with the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON), an alliance of community-led organizations that organizes around immigration issues and is assisting in Hernandez's case.
Just a few blocks from Pershing Square, something else was taking place on Saturday: an action at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) that was led by AF3IRM, a transnational women's organization, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), "which has been holding similar concerts outside of the detention center for over two years," said Claudia Batista, organizer and regional campaign coordinator for NDLON.
Many of his human companions were equally unusual: John Breed's son, a day laborer, who lamented the destruction of his boyhood home; Perez Blood, the eccentric astronomer who Thoreau visited repeatedly on the outskirts of town; Sophia Foord, the brilliant spinster who fell in love with the one man, Thoreau, who rivaled her in peculiarity; the unnamed fugitive slave whom Thoreau escorted to the railroad station so that he could make safe passage to Canada.

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