Home Depot: El Salvador

Cinco De Mayo Dept: In the parking lot of the Home Depot on the other side of the six-lane avenue, I could make out 30 or 40 more labourers, waiting for whatever the day might bring, according to Winnipeg Free Press and wASHINGTON -- At seis in the morning of Cinco de Mayo, outside the 7-Eleven, Pedro from El Salvador was sitting on a rock. He was hardly alone. Singly and in twos and threes, walking from the Metrobus and climbing out of battered, dusty cars, men were gathering in front of the convenience store in the yawning, dawning light. I sat in my old Honda and rehearsed my grade-school Spanish and gathered the nerve to talk to Pedro, who was wearing cut-off jeans, brown work boots with no socks, a ball cap with the letters "VA" on it, and a green T-shirt that said "eco-friendly education devotee." He reached into his backpack and pulled out a white dress shirt -- it was tinted pink by the emergent Saturday sun -- carefully folded it, and stuffed it back in the bag. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.