By Emily Bazar
USA TODAY

Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants.

The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Los Angeles.

READ MORE: http://www.app.com/article/20091130/NEWS06/91130111/Unemployed+U.S.-born+workers+seek+day-labor+jobs

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