One of the crew members had become dizzy the other afternoon and practically fell from a roof. In the freshly cleared desert, where houses were now in bloom, there wasn’t even a bush left to hide in the shade under the rafters of unfinished houses. The work was $ 15 to $ 20 an hour. “When it’s difficult, you think about another job,” says Joaquin Robledo, 24, who, like the other members of the crew, immigrated from the Mexican state of Sinaloa. “But you can’t find another job because you don’t have any documents. 9:00 am Julio Terrazas, 47, and a dozen day laborers stood in the parking lot of a Home Depot on the east side of Phoenix and shouted “Work? Work? ”As pickup trucks rolled in front of them. Their daily routine of planting wood, distributing gravel and renovating houses can become unbearable in the warm summer time, said Mr. Terrazas and other workers. Some bosses give them shade, cool water , Sandwiches and soothing relaxation breaks. Others get the workers to drink from yard taps and scream when the boys sit for more than 5 minutes, they said. But Mr. Terrazas said his daylight saving utility payments were $ 400, so he had to But he had one wish: if only needed for a part-time job at The Home Depot.
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