Hurricane Sandy damaged or destroyed more than 650,000 homes in New York. At least 4000 day laborers toiled to clean up the mess. An estimated 75% of these workers were undocumented migrants, an atypically high percentage. Most hailed from Mexico or other Latin American countries. 

Buzzfeed joined forces with sociology professor Héctor Cordero-Guzmán and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network to tell their stories. 

[Photo credit: “The Power of Hurricane Sandy,” by Rob Gross.]