Kim Badawi

Magazine Work: New York Magazine: Illegal Immigrants Workers: New York Magazine

There are 2.9 million immigrants living in New York today, more than a third of the city’s population, and one out of every six of them is undocumented. Legal or not, immigrants are good for New York. They stabilize the population ..."

Because We Proudly Harbor Illegal Immigrants

Published Dec 17, 2007- click here

View from inside a day-labor Center in Long Island City, NY.
  
40th Road and West Street junction. Long Island City. NY
   
Leonis, 42, illegal immigrant works as a school janitor in East Harlem, New York.
     
  
Jesus, 30, illegal Mexican immigrant who works at a Brooklyn bakery.
   
Jesus, 30, illegal Mexican immigrant who works at a Brooklyn bakery.
   
Elena, 29, illegal immigrant from Ecuador who works as a school janitor in East Harlem, New York
     
  
Jesus, 30, illegal Mexican immigrant worker. NY. 2008
   
Chinese immigrant in Chinatown, NY.
  
Yang, 40, illegal Chinese immigrant who works at a small restaurant in Brooklyn, New York.
     
  
Elena, 29, illegal immigrant from Ecuador who works as a school janitor in East Harlem, New York
   
  
Mexican immigrant who works at a small Arabic "Halal" butchery in Queens, New York.
     
  
Jonas, 28, illegal immigrant from Lithuania works as a project manager for a construction company in New York.
  
Lee, 35, illegal immigrant from South Africa lives on the Upper West Side of New York.
   
Lesbian mother of twin sons, living on the Upper West Side of New York.
     
  
Isa, 21, illegal immigrant from Colombia, studying education at CUNY and working five days a week as a childcare provider.