Construction worker exodus
Photo: Leila Navidi
The El Paso - Limousine Express pulls away from a downtown bus station. The manager at this station estimates that 100 people a week are buying one-way tickets to Mexico. They're going home because they can't find work building homes in the Las Vegas Valley.
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