I come here every morning and sometimes I leave at 3 p.m. without work. I keep doing it because I can't find a permanent job. I'd like to find something better.

I come here to wait and see if I'll get picked up (for work). Sometimes I'll buy cigarettes and a cup of coffee to get me ready for the day. Tell me, what law am I breaking?

This is kind of hard work. It's too tough for some of the locals. But we make money doing this. We can make more than $100 a day.

In other classes, you don't really feel different because you can do the work other people do.

It's been hard, we've been living day by day. We don't have any place to live, to work, nothing.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.