Since 1992, the number of hiring halls that help illegal immigrants get jobs and protect their rights has mushroomed, growing from just five in that year to 140 across the nation...
Interfaith's hiring hall helps arrange work for about 50 people a day ---- most of them illegal immigrants, said spokeswoman Deborah Andreasen.
A recent survey of 117,000 day laborers conducted by three universities, including the University of California Los Angeles, reported that more than three-fourths of those workers were illegal immigrants. The report, released in late January, also stated that in the two months prior to the survey, nearly half of all those workers had been denied payment for their work.
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