New York, NY —
As lawmakers in Washington continue the battle over U.S. immigration reform, suburban towns across the country are pushing forward with their own piecemeal solutions. Many are responding to the presence of day laborers - the often undocumented immigrants who wait for work on main drags or in parking lots.
In the Village of Brewster, New York, they are from Guatemala - here to rake leaves or build houses or garden for about 10 dollars an hour. More than a hundred might line Main Street on a given summer morning, and each year, the debate over what to do grows louder. WNYC's Marianne McCune has the first of three reports on how the failure of federal immigration policy has divided the Village of Brewster.