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Pasadena, California – 16 January 2025
1. Various of volunteers and day laborers gathered outside the Pasadena Community Job Center to help clean up dry brush that could be a fire hazard
2. Various of César Saucedo, a Mexican immigrant legally in the U.S. who’s helping with the cleanups
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) César Saucedo, Mexican immigrant legally in the U.S. and rescue brigade member:
"If Trump starts deporting people, it’ll be really bad because with all these disasters happening right now Trump won’t have the necessary labor force to rebuild. Because we know that immigrants play a crucial role. They’re the workers who rebuild. And if they’re not here, there’s not going to be anyone to do it."
4. Various of volunteers and day laborers cleaning up dry bushes that could be a fire hazard
5. Low shot of César Saucedo fixing chainsaw
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) César Saucedo, Mexican immigrant legally in the U.S. and rescue brigade member:
"Of course, people are going to be afraid, they are going to be afraid to go out and help. We can see right now there are many immigrants here working, helping voluntarily. But at the same time they are deporting immigrants, so people are not going to want to help out of fear."
7. Various of Saucedo filling documents before heading to cleanup
8. Saucedo greeting Cal Soto outside the Pasadena Community Job Center
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cal Soto, worker’s rights director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:
"We are here in Pasadena in the shadow of the Eaton fire, where day laborers from the Pasadena Community Job Center have responded to the need, are going out in the community cleaning up dry brush that could be a fire hazard as the winds pick up and trying to make sure that their community is as safe as possible by delivering also necessities like water, food, hygiene products and clothes."
10. Various exteriors of Pasadena Community Job Center
11. Painting hanging on the wall inside Job Center
12. Various of volunteers preparing food
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Cal Soto, worker’s rights director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:
"There’s no resiliency or recovery without immigrant workers. So you go back to Katrina, you go to Sandy, you go to Hurricane Harvey, and you see here, the people who go into the communities after the first responders, we call them second responders, are so often teams of workers, immigrant workers, undocumented immigrant workers, who respond to that need and are there to rebuild roofs, to pick up the rubble and to start building the community back to what it was."
14. Various of volunteers inside the Pasadena Community Job Center
15. Various of gloves and shovels for the cleanups
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Cal Soto, worker’s rights director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:
"Yeah, it is a concern (planned mass deportations). But, you know, one thing that I’ve always seen is that the community always responds to help each other, no matter what the invective and what the rhetoric of politics is in the national sphere. And we’re seeing it here."
17. Low shot of volunteers outside Pasadena Community Job Center
STORYLINE:
While firefighters battled blazes in the Los Angeles area this week, immigrant day laborers were leading cleanups near scorched neighborhoods in Pasadena and Altadena.
As the number of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change increases, there is a growing workforce of laborers, many of them without legal status.
AP Video by Ty ONeil
Produced by Teresa de Miguel
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