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Hoping to pick up work, day laborers wait outside a U-Haul moving van rental business in Falls Church, Virginia, May 7, 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

How the Powerless Win Power

Immigrant workers—particularly the undocumented—are denied basic rights, but through worker centers, they’ve aggregated their strength and bettered their lives.

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