Chicago day laborers say heightened immigration enforcement has sharply reduced work opportunities at one of the city's oldest informal hiring sites, according to a new report by Borderless Magazine, as fewer workers and employers show up at the Avondale corner where laborers have gathered for decades.
The hiring site near Belmont and Milwaukee avenues once drew hundreds of workers each morning seeking jobs in roofing, painting, moving, dishwashing and construction. This year, workers told Borderless, only about a dozen or fewer laborers are often waiting there at a time.
