SAN DIEGO, Calif.— Isaias, Alvino and Porfirio, three Mixtec men from Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in the Los Peñasquitos canyon on the north edge of San Diego. They work as day laborers and farm workers—wherever they can find work. All photos and story by NAM associate editor David Bacon.

The settlements where the men sleep are in the trees and bushes.

They have to hide their clothes and possessions, and leave them behind when they go looking for work every day.

Juan, a Mixtec immigrant, works as a day laborer. “There is no work in Oaxaca, where I come from,” he says.

The other Mixtec men from Etla wait for work early each morning at the side of the road.

Their homes in the brush, below the new suburban development.

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