NPR It's a scene you see in several cities in the United States, outside of a Home Depot or a Lowe's or a U-Haul, migrants looking for day labor. I'm here with our Indicator Fellow, Carlos Garcia.

Welcome Carlos.

Thanks, Darien. As you know, a few weeks ago, you and I went to a Home Depot in Brooklyn, New York.

We saw dozens of migrants gathered outside of... I went to a Home Depot in Brooklyn, New York.

We saw dozens of migrants gathered outside of every parking lot exit, waving at cars,

looking for work.

I wanted to talk to one of them.

The probability is fable

to con up for.

That's Ibrahim, a 34-year-old asylum seeker from Guinea.

He told me in French that the probability of getting day labor is small, but it's his only hope to find

work without a work permit.

We're just using his first name so that he could talk freely about working in the US without

authorization.

He said that he fled Guinea because he suffered political persecution there.

He says he applied for asylum.

Like many asylum seekers, Ibrahim came to the US to rebuild his life

and start working, but he can't work legally. He had to apply for a work permit through

asylum. He got to New York nine months ago and he is still

waiting for the work permit to come through. This is the indicator for planet

money. I'm Darren Woods. And I'm Carlos Garcia. A lot of the debate right

now is about illegal immigration. Today on the

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