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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. SOUNDBITE (English) Cal Soto, worker’s rights director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:
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"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, who respond to that need and are there to rebuild roofs, to pick up the rubble and to start building that community back to what it was."
3. Various of volunteers and day laborers cleaning up dry bushes that could be a fire hazard
4. Low shot of César Saucedo, a Mexican immigrant legally in the U.S. who’s helping with the cleanups, fixing chainsaw
5. Various of Saucedo filling documents before heading to cleanup
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) César Saucedo, Mexican immigrant legally in the U.S. and rescue brigade member:
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"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."
7. Low shot of volunteers outside Pasadena Community Job Center
8. Exterior of Pasadena Community Job Center
9. Painting hanging on the wall inside Job Center
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Cal Soto, worker’s rights director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:
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"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."
11. Various of volunteers preparing food
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.
When President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next week, he has said he plans to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally. Immigrant advocates say that could impact America’s ability to quickly rebuild after major damage from floods, hurricanes, fires and other disasters.
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.
Some crisscross the country following extreme weather events, helping to put back together entire communities. Many are highly skilled electricians, plumbers and masons. Others do manual labor, like cutting up and hauling away fallen trees and branches.
"There’s no resiliency or recovery without immigrant workers," said Cal Soto, worker’s rights director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "The people who go into the communities after the first responders, we call them second responders, are so often teams of 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 that community back to what it was before."
AP Video by Ty ONeil
Produced by Teresa de Miguel
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