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The borrowed flip phone he uses during the day was useless in trying to find online maps showing free water and heat-relief tents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, senior. Castro said he knew nothing of the 89 air-conditioned cooling centers operating across the county. COVID-19 is an extremely contagious disease that can lead to severe illness and death. Volunteers armed with maps are set to hit the streets in Phoenix soon to check on people and guide them to cooling centers, but Mr. Libya has not managed to emerge from the conflict that preceded dictator Moammar al-Gadhafis death on October 20, 2011. He pleads with convenience-store clerks for cups of ice and gets free bottled water from homeless-outreach workers.īut cooling off is almost impossible.
He has been floating between relatives’ apartments, shelter beds and the street. So his wife and children, now homeless, have been staying in a garage without air conditioning with her parents. Castro said he could no longer afford the $1,100 that landlords in his old neighborhood were demanding. Rents in Phoenix rose about 8 percent during the pandemic, the most of any major city, according to the real estate site Zillow. But he had a wish: If only he had applied for a part-time job at The Home Depot. Terrazas said his summer utility bills ran $400, so he had to suffer through it.
Others force the laborers to drink from backyard faucets and yell if the men sit down for more than five minutes, they said.īut Mr. Some bosses give them shade, cold water, sandwiches and generous rest breaks. Their daily routine of planting trees, spreading gravel and renovating houses can become unbearable in the heat of summer, Mr. Get the best deal for Death by Degrees Video Games from the largest online selection at. Julio Terrazas, 47, and a dozen day laborers stood in the parking lot of a Home Depot on the east side of Phoenix, yelling “Work? Work?” as pickup trucks rolled past them. “But you can’t look for another job because you don’t have documents.” 9 a.m. “When it’s hard, you think about another job,” said Joaquin Robledo, 24, who like the others on the crew had immigrated from the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Not even a bush was left in the newly cleared desert where houses now bloomed, so they huddled for shade under the rafters of unfinished houses. One of the members of the crew had gotten dizzy and nearly tumbled from a roof the other afternoon.
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