{"id":22722,"date":"2024-08-06T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:45:13","slug":"departamento-de-policia-de-chicago-jornaleros-demanda-por-acoso-sindicato-latino-eeuu-home-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/08\/06\/chicago-police-department-day-laborers-harrassment-lawsuit-latino-union-usa-home-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"Los jornaleros dicen que est\u00e1n siendo golpeados y acosados fuera de Home Depot por polic\u00edas fuera de servicio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a76df16\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article was originally published by <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citybureau.org\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City Bureau<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a nonprofit journalism lab reimagining local news. Support City Bureau\u2019s Civic Reporting fellowship by <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citybureau.org\/donate\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">becoming a recurring donor<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five recently arrived migrants say criminal trespassing enforcement at a Southwest Side Home Depot has escalated to alleged physical assaults by security personnel, including multiple off-duty Chicago Police officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The allegations are at the heart of a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, which names two Chicago police officers, two Home Depot employees, and other unnamed security personnel and police officers, in addition to the city and Home Depot, as defendants. In the course of its six-month investigation into the treatment of migrant laborers, City Bureau learned of the pending suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The five migrants were choked, thrown around, punched, slapped and otherwise struck after they were handcuffed and brought into a security room at the Home Depot, the lawsuit alleges. The incidents took place between October and May, involving Venezuelan and Colombian migrants between 26-45 years old. Each individual plaintiff endured xenophobic and racial insults while detained by off-duty CPD officers and Home Depot security, the lawsuit states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese abuses, while horrifying, are not new,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\">\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a76f5d5\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle small\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_color_909090 border_style_solid \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77024c\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle large top_margin_20px bottom_margin_20px\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"true\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay row-bg-layer\" style=\"background: #FFFFFF; background: linear-gradient(90deg,#FFFFFF 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);  opacity: 1; \"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent force-phone-text-align-center inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_top_desktop_1px border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_FFFFFF border_style_solid \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77096e\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-7 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<h4 id=\"news-that-puts-power-under-the-spotlight-and-communities-at-the-center\"><strong>News that puts power under the spotlight and communities at the center.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Sign up for our free newsletter and get updates twice a week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div style=\"margin-top: -20px; \" class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column neg-marg no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"_form_1\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.bluelena.io\/f\/embed.php?id=1\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four of the five either were not charged, or had criminal trespassing charges later dismissed in court, according to the lawsuit. The fifth man has a court hearing scheduled for later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday by Raise the Floor Alliance and the People\u2019s Law Office, Latino Union of Chicago joined with the five migrants in alleging off-duty Chicago police violated the migrants\u2019 constitutional rights against excessive force, unlawful search and seizure and detention; and accusing officers and Home Depot employees of conspiring to deprive them of those rights, false arrest and malicious prosecution based on the migrants\u2019 country of origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lawsuit also accuses the Chicago Police Department and Home Depot of working together to interfere with the day laborers\u2019 right to seek work, with the city allegedly signing off on Home Depot recruiting additional off-duty Chicago police officers beginning in October, when a greater number of Venezuelans began showing up at The Home Depot at 4555 S. Western Blvd., it states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to the allegations first detailed to City Bureau in the spring, both Home Depot and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability launched investigations. As of July 24, the COPA investigation was still in progress, according to a spokesperson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayor Brandon Johnson\u2019s office pledged in April that every allegation of police misconduct would be \u201cthoroughly investigated\u201d and misconduct would be \u201cswiftly addressed and adjudicated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April, Home Depot said its internal investigation found no evidence the allegation against its security personnel took place on company property. The company enforces a non-solicitation policy, it said in an email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is a complex community issue, and we cooperate with local law enforcement officials in addressing trespassing issues on our property,\u201d a Home Depot spokesperson said in an April 24 statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luis, a 29-year-old day laborer, had been frequenting the Home Depot parking lot since arriving in Chicago just over a year ago, hoping to earn enough cash to pay for rent and eventually open his own small business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a 26-second video clip obtained by City Bureau and recorded by a fellow day laborer, Luis is seen on the ground before two men pull him up by his arms, place him in handcuffs, and walk him toward the Home Depot building. One of them wears a dark-colored vest bearing a \u201cPOLICE\u201d patch on the back and an embroidered star on the front. This vest, known as an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overshirt carrier, is in line with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/directives.chicagopolice.org\/#directive\/public\/6530\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uniform specifications laid out in CPD directives.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luis, who requested his last name be withheld because he feared retaliation for speaking publicly about the alleged assault, told City Bureau he did not see the trespassing signs and received no verbal warning before he was dragged into a security room and allegedly beaten by an off-duty police officer working security at the hardware big box chain Jan. 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I was in the room, he hit me on the ribs and the chest like four or five times,\u201d Luis said in Spanish. \u201cThey grabbed me like I was a doll. He threw me, and I flew, saying, \u2018Oh God, what\u2019s going on?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a7727b4\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row article-image\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-with-aniamtion-wrap center\" data-max-width=\"100%\" data-max-width-mobile=\"default\" data-shadow=\"none\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" >\r\n      <div class=\"inner\">\r\n        <div class=\"hover-wrap\"> \r\n          <div class=\"hover-wrap-inner\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-with-animation skip-lazy \" data-delay=\"0\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-1245x830.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_05_Tresspassing-Arrests-City-Bureau_02-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1450px) 75vw, (min-width: 1000px) 85vw, 100vw\" \/>\r\n         <\/div>\r\n      <\/div><span class=\"vc_figure-caption ccfic-text media-caption\">A trespassing sign is posted along a fence at The Home Depot adjacent to Western Boulevard entrance, May 28, 2024. There are multiple trespassing signs posted on light poles along the store&#039;s parking lot. <\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Sebastian Hidalgo\/City Bureau<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a7735b4\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When arresting officers arrived at the scene, the off-duty officer told them he had given Luis prior verbal warning earlier in the day before Luis returned and was detained, according to the arrest report. Luis denies he received that prior warning, but he was still arrested and charged with criminal trespassing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trespassing arrests are a risk migrant day laborers increasingly face in Chicago as they maneuver the challenge of obtaining legal work authorization \u2014 a process that typically takes at least six months and can take more than a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the interim, many look for work in Home Depot parking lots \u2014\u00a0and are often the target of trespassing arrests as they do so, deterring them from scraping out a living with daily gigs in construction, demolition or other physical labor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as more than a dozen day laborers say they\u2019ve been verbally harassed or physically assaulted, labor advocates are taking legal action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSeeking happy [and] healthy lives should be something that anybody [who] resides in the city should be able to do. Unfortunately, a lot of those things \u2026 are criminalized,\u201d said Miguel Alvelo Rivera, executive director of Latino Union of Chicago, a community-based worker center that organizes day laborers and household workers. \u201cIn situations like this, we see the seeking of work as a crime, surviving as a crime \u2014 because of who is trying to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"off-duty-allegations\">Off-duty allegations<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second alleged incident detailed in Tuesday\u2019s lawsuit, Alfonzo Gabriel Arias, 26, was asked to leave the Home Depot parking lot Dec. 27 and complied, his lawyers said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After moving to the public sidewalk, Arias was approached by three men, including off-duty police officer Eric Gaytan, the lawsuit alleges. The two others also wore vests marked \u201cPOLICE,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One man threw Arias to the ground before he was handcuffed and \u201cforcibly dragged\u201d into the store and taken to a room, according to the lawsuit. While still handcuffed, he was shoved into a bench; struck in the face, ribs and stomach; and choked as the men laughed and threatened to have him deported, the complaint states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At one point, one of the men told the man choking Arias to stop or \u201che would kill Mr. Arias,\u201d according to the lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gaytan\u2019s badge number corresponds with two past Bureau of Internal Affairs cases and one Civilian Office of Police Accountability complaint. The complaints involve an arrest without providing Miranda Rights to a complainant, and failing to properly investigate an incident, according to a COPA response to a Freedom of Information Act request. One complaint is still under investigation; two have been closed, according to COPA documents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with Luis, several migrants point to off-duty officer Angel Martinez as being one of the main aggressors in the physical assaults at the Home Depot, they told City Bureau.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve met other people who were assaulted by the same person who assaulted me,\u201d Luis said in Spanish to City Bureau.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martinez is also listed as the complainant on Luis\u2019 arrest report. The federal lawsuit only directly connects Martinez by name to Luis\u2019 arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"fws_69eda1a7740b1\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_000000 border_style_solid \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_sep_color_black wpb_content_element vc_separator-has-text\" ><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l\"><span class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span><h4 id=\"read-more-of-our-coverage\">Read More of Our Coverage<\/h4><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r\"><span class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-inline-posts\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-inline-posts-container pk-inline-posts-template-list\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-columns=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"post-22653\" class=\"post-22653 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-labor category-organizing tag-daylaborer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-overlay pk-overlay-ratio pk-ratio-landscape\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-overlay-background\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/07\/30\/chicago-day-laborers-home-depot-ecuador-venezuela-migrants-work-authorization\/\" class=\"pk-overlay-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240724_DayLaborers_Web_01-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-pk-thumbnail size-pk-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<header>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"pk-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/07\/30\/chicago-day-laborers-home-depot-ecuador-venezuela-migrants-work-authorization\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018I Have to Find Work\u2019: Day Laborers Face Steep Competition, Slim Job Prospects<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-author meta-author\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/author\/stephen-franklin\/\" title=\"View all posts by Stephen Franklin, Abel Uribe\">Stephen Franklin, Abel Uribe<\/a><\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sep\">\u00b7<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-date meta-date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/07\/30\/chicago-day-laborers-home-depot-ecuador-venezuela-migrants-work-authorization\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">julio 30, 2024<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-inner -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-outer -->\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In additional videos and screenshots recorded in December and May, along with the one showing Luis\u2019 arrest, Martinez wore a dark-colored vest sporting an embroidered star and his name patch while working at the store. Characteristics of the vest are consistent with CPD directives regulating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/directives.chicagopolice.org\/#directive\/public\/6835\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">embroidered patches<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. City Bureau reporters also spoke to Martinez in person at The Home Depot and observed him wearing his CPD badge number.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That badge number corresponds to 13 Bureau of Internal Affairs and COPA complaints against Martinez, according to CPD and COPA documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five of the complaints are still under investigation, including the Jan. 10 incident involving Luis at the Southwest Side Home Depot. Two of the 13 complaints against Martinez were sustained \u2014 resulting in additional training and a reprimand in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martinez was a defendant in a federal civil lawsuit concerning false arrest and seizure, and malicious prosecution. The lawsuit was ultimately settled and dismissed in May 2023.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martinez declined to comment in person and through Chicago police media affairs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"selective-enforcement\">\u2018Selective enforcement\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public records show trespassing arrests have increased significantly at The Home Depot at 4555 S. Western Blvd. The uptick came after trespassing signs were posted some time after November 2022, according to an analysis of Google Street View images. This coincides with the arrival of the first bus carrying migrants from the Texas border to Chicago, on Aug. 31, 2022, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/sites\/texas-new-arrivals\/home.html#:~:text=Since%20August%2031%2C%202022%2C%20the,D.C.%2C%20and%20New%20York%20City.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according to the city<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For someone to be found guilty of criminal trespassing in Illinois, they must first be warned that their presence is forbidden, either verbally or in writing, which can include a \u201cno trespassing\u201d sign posted at the property\u2019s main entrance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If they remain on the property or return, they can be charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor that can carry a punishment of up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $1,500.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_widgetised_column wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t<div id=\"sidebar\" data-nectar-ss=\"true\" class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"custom_html-4 1articleright\" class=\"widget_text widget widget_custom_html\"><h3 id=\"wordpress-popular-posts\" class=\"widget-title\">WordPress Popular Posts<\/h3><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><h4 id=\"trending-posts\" class=\"widget-title\">Trending Posts<\/h4><div class=\"wpp-shortcode\"><script type=\"application\/json\" data-id=\"wpp-shortcode-inline-js\">{\"title\":\"Trending Posts\",\"limit\":\"3\",\"offset\":0,\"range\":\"custom\",\"time_quantity\":\"124\",\"time_unit\":\"day\",\"freshness\":\"1\",\"order_by\":\"views\",\"post_type\":\"post\",\"pid\":\"\",\"exclude\":\"\",\"cat\":\"\",\"taxonomy\":\"category\",\"term_id\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"shorten_title\":{\"active\":false,\"length\":0,\"words\":false},\"post-excerpt\":{\"active\":false,\"length\":0,\"keep_format\":false,\"words\":false},\"thumbnail\":{\"active\":true,\"build\":\"predefined\",\"width\":\"240\",\"height\":\"160\"},\"rating\":false,\"stats_tag\":{\"comment_count\":false,\"views\":false,\"author\":false,\"date\":{\"active\":false,\"format\":\"F j, Y\"},\"category\":false,\"taxonomy\":{\"active\":false,\"name\":\"category\"}},\"markup\":{\"custom_html\":true,\"wpp-start\":\"&lt;ul class=&quot;wpp-list wpp-cardview&quot;&gt;\",\"wpp-end\":\"&lt;\\\/ul&gt;\",\"title-start\":\"&lt;h4 class=&quot;widget-title&quot;&gt;\",\"title-end\":\"&lt;\\\/h4&gt;\",\"post-html\":\"&lt;li&gt;{thumb} {title} {stats}&lt;\\\/li&gt;\"},\"theme\":{\"name\":\"\"}}<\/script><div class=\"wpp-shortcode-placeholder\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77859c\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row article-image\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; 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Western Blvd., in Chicago, on Thursday, April 4, 2024.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Sebastian Hidalgo\/City Bureau<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77924d\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the Western Boulevard location, the signs, posted in English and Spanish, are small and located approximately 12 feet above the ground on every light pole in the parking lot, with at least one near the entrance and several along the gate framing the parking lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As more than 45,000 migrants arrived via Texas buses and airplanes to Chicago over the past two years, conflicts with police are turning violent and feel discriminatory toward the largely Venezuelan population of recent arrivals, according to City Bureau interviews with more than a dozen day laborers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The accusations of mistreatment known to City Bureau stem from the Western Boulevard Home Depot, which is located near the borders of the New City, Back of the Yards, and Brighton Park neighborhoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criminal trespassing enforcement has skyrocketed there since August 2023, according to a City Bureau analysis of Chicago Police Department data. From 2002 to 2022, a total 31 arrests took place there, averaging 1.4 arrests per year. In 2023, 24 arrests took place, all within the last five months of the year \u2014 over 16 times the previous 20-year average. The rate of arrests continued to outpace previous years in the first few months of 2024, according to CPD data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of those arrested for trespassing at the Home Depot site from Aug. 18, 2023, to March 25, 85% were Venezuelan, although the country of origin was unknown for seven of the 34 arrests<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Venezuelan. The fifth, Betuel Castro Camacho, is Colombian, but was told he \u201cwas lying and that he was Venezuelan\u201d while three security personnel allegedly assaulted him inside a room on the western side of the Home Depot, the lawsuit states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe selective enforcement of criminal trespassing laws against migrants when they are seeking work as day laborers is a means of criminalizing a person\u2019s status for simply being a migrant,\u201d said Kathleen Arnold, director of DePaul University\u2019s refugee and forced migration graduate program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a misunderstanding of why they are in Home Depot parking lots in the first place,\u201d she said. \u201cThese individuals seek work, which is a life-sustaining function, not criminal activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arnold said she believes this amounts to discrimination based on perceived nationality, because the police statistics indicate significant selective enforcement of trespassing based on country of origin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat amounts to racism, because you\u2019re assuming that because they\u2019re from Venezuela, they must be committing a crime,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77a298\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<h2 id=\"a-very-specific-kind-of-racist-interest\">\u2018A very specific kind of racist interest\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five additional recently arrived migrants told City Bureau they have been verbally harassed by Home Depot security personnel and what appear to be off-duty officers wearing body armor vests labeled \u201cPOLICE.\u201d Off-duty officers are sometimes contracted by third-party companies to work as security personnel at The Home Depot, a practice allowed within the CPD guidelines for secondary employment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a March 27 video obtained by City Bureau, security personnel shout in English and Spanish as they approach a group of mostly Venezuelan day laborers standing on the sidewalk adjacent to the hardware store\u2019s parking lot \u2014 public property beyond the store\u2019s property line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cF\u2014 off, get out of here,\u201d they jeer. \u201cGet the f\u2014 out. I don\u2019t care that you are recording.\u201d They call the day laborers <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pendejos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Spanish for \u201cidiots.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander, who recorded the video and requested his last name be withheld out of fear of being targeted by law and immigration enforcement, has been frequenting the Home Depot hiring site since late 2023. While migrants from other countries \u2014 Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and Ecuador \u2014 cluster in other parts of the parking lot, he said he believes the security personnel are specifically targeting Venezuelans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest incidents follow a long-standing pattern of using trespassing charges or other means to target migrant workers in the Chicago area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2003, then-Ald. Margaret Laurino (39th) forced day laborers to vacate a defunct CTA bus station in Albany Park. When the station was ultimately demolished, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2003\/09\/05\/day-laborers-backers-lash-out-at-alderman\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">local advocates accused Laurino of race-based motivation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the teardown and subsequent displacement of the mostly Latino workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years later, Home Depot officials in west suburban Cicero called police on day laborers, which, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2006\/09\/28\/day-laborers-get-mixed-signals\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2005 Chicago Tribune report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, kicked off a chain of 55 arrests for misdemeanor trespassing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2007, the Chicago Committee For The Right to Work filed a federal lawsuit against Chicago police, the city and a business owner on the grounds of false arrests, wrongful detention and imprisonment, and a violation of First Amendment rights after three men were arrested for trespassing on a manufacturing company\u2019s site, which day laborers frequented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The civil lawsuit was ultimately dismissed in court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trespassing enforcement used against migrants follows a pattern in the United States, said Kevin Herrera, legal director at Raise the Floor Alliance, a Chicago-based workers rights organization and law office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said enforcement is typically on \u201cprivate property with poor signage, where people reasonably believe that places like a Home Depot parking lot are open to the public because customers come and go as they please.\u201d The rules are selectively enforced, \u201cwhich reflects a very specific kind of racist and xenophobic interest,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certain day laborers, such as older Mexican workers, are seemingly unaffected by the harassment from Home Depot security personnel, migrants and advocates said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThen rules are selectively enforced for arbitrary reasons, usually centered around which people are deemed acceptable and which people are not,\u201d Herrera said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worker rights advocates say the latest incidents underscore a wave of escalation in both the targeting of migrants looking for work, and in the violent response by sworn police officers hired as security personnel, a form of secondary employment commonly known as \u201cmoonlighting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77b3c8\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row article-image\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-with-aniamtion-wrap center\" data-max-width=\"100%\" data-max-width-mobile=\"default\" data-shadow=\"none\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" >\r\n      <div class=\"inner\">\r\n        <div class=\"hover-wrap\"> \r\n          <div class=\"hover-wrap-inner\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-with-animation skip-lazy \" data-delay=\"0\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-1245x830.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sebastian-HidalgoCity-Bureau_04-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1450px) 75vw, (min-width: 1000px) 85vw, 100vw\" \/>\r\n         <\/div>\r\n      <\/div><span class=\"vc_figure-caption ccfic-text media-caption\">A day laborer displays his hands on May 18, 2024, to show the calluses of daily construction work. Many day laborers do not qualify for work authorization and rely on the daily gig work contractors provide. <\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Sebastian Hidalgo\/City Bureau<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77c024\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 2017 joint investigation by the Chicago Reporter and CBS-2 into moonlighting found that out of the nation\u2019s 50 largest municipal and county law enforcement agencies, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoreporter.com\/when-chicago-cops-moonlight-no-one-is-watching\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPD had the weakest oversight<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on officers\u2019 secondary employment statutes. The report found that CPD was the only one of the 50 departments that does not require its officers to get permission to work a second job.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, CPD asks officers to disclose secondary employment to supervisors on an honor system, and will only investigate incidents once a formal complaint is made, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/ethics\/general\/AO_OutsideEmployment\/13053.A.doc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2014 Board of Ethics document.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The ruling also notes that CPD prohibits outside employment where \u201ca use of official police authority is a condition of secondary employment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A U.S. Department of Justice investigation into CPD in 2017 found \u201ca significant amount of alleged officer misconduct involves officers working secondary employment.\u201d A 2017 report by Chicago\u2019s Office of the Inspector General also found potential risk for officer burnout and legal exposure<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPD\u2019s lack of secondary employment oversight contributed to the abuses of day laborers by off-duty police officers at the Western Boulevard Home Depot store, said Raise the Floor\u2019s Herrera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s really a travesty that it has taken getting to a place like we&#8217;re at now for the city to take material steps to limit what off-duty police officers can do when working in private employment,\u201d Herrera said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Off-duty officers working second jobs still need to follow the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/dam\/city\/depts\/cpb\/PoliceDiscipline\/RulesofConduct.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPD rules of conduct<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which say officers must identify themselves by name, rank and star number upon request; avoid unnecessary verbal and physical confrontation with anyone, excessive use of force, and physical or verbal maltreatment of any citizen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also against <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/fulltext.asp?DocName=022504470K25-30\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state law<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for off-duty officers working security to imply they are an employee of a government entity such as CPD; to wear a badge, identification card or police emblem; or wear uniforms with the words, &#8220;police,&#8221; &#8220;sheriff,&#8221; &#8220;highway patrol,&#8221; &#8220;trooper,&#8221; or &#8220;law enforcement&#8221; while on the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"city-backed-solutions\">City-backed solutions<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the larger question of how day laborers can safely solicit employment in private business with strict solicitation policies like at the Home Depot parking lots, the city can do more, said Alvelo Rivera, executive director of Latino Union of Chicago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe believe that there is not only potential, but a need for the city to respond to the situation,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no city-supported hiring centers for day laborers in Chicago. However, Alvelo Rivera points to a city-funded job center in Pasadena, California, and a city-run day labor center in Plano, Texas, as examples of city-supported options.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2000, the Instituto de Educaci\u00f3n Popular del Sur de California and the National Day Labor Organizing Network established the Pasadena Community Job Center with the support of a $140,000 city grant to help day laborers find employment.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The center \u201cis one of the top worker centers in the country,\u201d said Nik Theodore, professor of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are the model for what these organizations can be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plano\u2019s Day Labor Center opened in 1994 as a safe place for workers and contractors to connect after issues stemming from day laborers seeking employment in front of private businesses arose in the 1980s and \u201990s, according to The Dallas Morning News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fall, Dallas and Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas, a quasi-governmental and nonprofit organization, will follow suit and launch a $432,000 pilot program for day laborers to connect directly with contractors at two mobile centers, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2023\/10\/02\/city-of-dallas-will-launch-two-mobile-units-to-help-ensure-day-laborers-get-a-fair-deal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dallas Morning News reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"fws_69eda1a77cba7\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row 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data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<h2 id=\"i-came-here-to-work-nothing-else\">\u2018I came here to work, nothing else\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the alleged Jan. 10 beating inside the Home Depot security room, Luis was charged with criminal trespass. Luis said he was photographed and forced to sign a pretrial form, despite the form being written in English, which he cannot read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luis initially appeared in court Jan. 31. Worried the arrest would negatively affect his 2025 asylum hearing, Luis completed 25 hours of community service at St. Rita of Cascia Parish in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Luis returned to court April 10. At that hearing, the charges were dismissed, according to the lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continues to visit the Home Depot site looking for work, despite knowing the risk of a second arrest, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI came here to work,\u201d he said, \u201cnothing else.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he came to Chicago in May 2023, fleeing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartsonvenezuela.com\/encovi-2022-poverty-drops-inequality-increases-and-the-education-crisis-worsens\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">economic hardship in Venezuela<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Luis hoped he\u2019d be able to eventually open his own business. But the trauma of his violent arrest and the difficulties finding steady employment without a work permit has left him feeling hopeless and depressed, he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m trying to do everything the right way,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But first, he has to see if Chicago \u2014 the Welcoming City he hopes to call home \u2014 will give him the chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking for more information about migrant labor rights? Check out <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citybureau.org\/newswire\/know-your-labor-rights\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this Know Your Rights guide<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, published in collaboration with Latino Union of Chicago.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sebasti\u00e1n Hidalgo is a photojournalist and investigative reporter in Chicago, covering the intersection of low-wage labor and policing. 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