Informal day labor is not new to the United States, and day laborers are not always migrant workers in many cases.
In his study of day laborers in Atlanta, Terry Easton interviews white and black day laborers in addition to Hispanic workers.[10] Many other metropolitan areas still have non-immigrant day laborers, and many other large and small cities have immigrant day laborers from a variety of countries, including Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Brazil, Central and South America, and countries in Africa. Non-immigrant informal day labor, seen in many cities, does not generate the controversy or calls to police and local government seen when immigrant day laborers gather to wait for work.