Service Jobs: Coast Town and Immigrant Families

service jobs: Antonio and Victor Benitez suffered broken bones and each lost a child, according to CTV. Antonio's wife was killed, while Victor's wife is missing and his toddler son was injured. The Mexican brothers are gardeners and part of the town's working-class immigrant population, which suffered outsized losses from the recent mudslides that killed at least 20, injured dozens and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes. Nearly a third of those killed in the Jan. 9 mudslides were from immigrant families working in service jobs in the largely white and retired Pacific coast town of 9,000. Among them was 30-year-old Pinit Sutthithepa from Thailand who worked at a Toyota dealership in Santa Barbara and sent money to his wife and two children for years before being able to bring them to the United States in 2016. Many of these families are from developing countries seizing the opportunities provided by the area's wealth to make a better life for their children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.