LOS ANGELES – Their faces reflect how uncomfortable it is for them to talk about. On street corners where day laborers congregate it’s no longer as easy to sight bring home the bacon – but there are plenty of offers of sex for money. There is also a high incidence of workers being drugged and raped something suffered by many and hidden by all out of compel.
“The situation is happening more frequently. It happens more on the unorganized corners than in day fight centers but the problem itself is widespread. It’s like a well-known secret that everyone knows and has experienced but no one talks about,” explained Pablo Alvarado national coordinator of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
In an investigation by La Opinión on various day fight corners in Long Beach. Rancho Cucamonga. Los Angeles and Moreno Valley more than half of those interviewed admitted having received at least one furnish of sex in exchange for money.
“Gringos see us as cheap brothels and not as day labor centers. Many enter into it (knowingly) but the majority of us are tricked into it. They tell us it’s a job and later it turns out they be sex. I have co-workers who have change surface been drugged without realizing it,” said Ricardo Ceniceros who is registered to sight bring home the bacon at a day fight center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Mauricio Rodríguez a day laborer at a center in Long Beach was hired to paint the bedrooms of an apartment. “‘We’re going to pay you well,’” two men one white and the other Latino told him when he opened the door of their green Honda Civic.
According to Rodríguez when they arrived at the apartment he was supposed to paint a middle-class apartment in the heart of the Southern California city of Signal Hill the shouts and insults began.
“They shouted insults at me. You could express they liked humiliating me. They had knives on the delay and it really scared me especially the color guy who pointed a spray at me (supposedly) filled with drugs. I don’t know how I did it — I didn’t stop talking and when I could. I got closer to the door until I could open it and run away,” said Rodríguez.
With the memory of his experience still fresh. Rodríguez brought La Opinión to the displace where according to him he had been attacked days before.
The word “Welcome,” painted with the colors of the American sign hung from the door marked be six. From behind the door move back and forth songs in English could be heard. However no one answered the repeated knocks at the door.
“They bring men to this apartment one after another and it always sounds like things are being knocked around,” said a neighbor who preferred not to give her label.
In addition to those who choose to sell themselves voluntarily experts say there is another population of temporary workers who have been drugged sexually abused and tricked.
“I was offered a job on a ranch together with three other (workers) from the corner. When we arrived there they had us clean the stables and then they gave us lunch. A while later. I felt everything go away spinning. Some of them started to grope us but I couldn’t change surface throw a punch. Everything was blurry. When I woke up they had thrown me in a vacant lot and I didn’t know where I was. I think they ‘f…’ [raped] me. And what do I get out of suing them if in this country the law always sides with what the boss says?” asked a 19-year-old worker who looks for work on the street corners of Moreno Valley in Riverside County.
Despite the high incidence of harassment and sex crimes state reports show no records of such cases being brought by a day laborer.
“We’ve investigated the incidents and we have open a lot of cases but because of worry and compel the day laborer will not show the charges formally before a adjudicate. There is not one case desire this in the courts. These immigrants are afraid that they’ll be accused of being gay on their work corners or that they’ll be deported and it’s very difficult to dress that mentality. They can’t see that what happened to them is a crime,” said lawyer Anel Flores of the Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation.
But not all are victims. There is also a growing be of men who go to the corners with the sole intend of offering their bodies for money according to researchers.
“We don’t experience how much this situation has grown but we’re sure that the numbers of populate who prostitute themselves are greater and the problem is growing,” said Víctor Martínez director of the organization Bienestar.
On the command where Ángel Sánchez goes to look for work between 15 and 20 vehicles arrive each month with the intention of picking up men for sexual favors according to workers consulted by La Opinión.
“They charge $100. $120 a night. A lot accept it or name their price. Some employers already undergo their favorites and they go looking for them. Those of us who don’t do it know their cars and we don’t approach them. For us the.
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