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Across the U.S., immigrant workers suffered disproportionately after COVID-19 struck. But their outsized presence in Las Vegas’ hospitality industry, where they form the working-class backbone of countless hotels, casinos and restaurants, meant a special kind of devastation. A single line in a newspaper article brought us here: More than half the members of Las Vegas’ powerful Culinary Workers Union were still unemployed more than eight months into the pandemic. Most of its members are racial minorities or immigrants.
“We are not going to lose our house,” she says. Then she repeats herself: “We are strong and we are not going to lose it.”Flores, 54, hasn’t worked since March, when Nevada’s casinos were ordered closed as the pandemic spread. While many casinos reopened in June, hers did not. She gets $322 a week in unemployment after taxes, but is helping support a son, a daughter and six grandchildren who moved in with her as the state’s economy collapsed.
Thirty years ago, she left factory work in a small Mexican city to follow her then-husband to the U.S. She found a job in the Henderson casino, first working as a server in a cafe and later in a buffet restaurant. Eventually, they had six children.But then her marriage unraveled. “I found out a lot of bad things,” she says, and leaves it at that. They split up 13 years ago.
She doesn’t let the kids wander far so they play in the dirt back yard, which is partially fenced in with old bed springs.
ByTimSullivan Every time Trump's superspreader events are shown around the world foreign tourism and business travel in the US take a hit. His refusal to control the pandemic will damage those sectors more than any other. It will be years before people feel confident about the US
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