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Spectators watch dragsters speed down the track during timing and tuning at the Immokalee Regional Raceway Friday night. Contestants come from around Southwest Florida for races each Friday and Saturday night.
Spectators watch dragsters speed down the track during timing and tuning at the Immokalee Regional Raceway Friday night. Contestants come from around Southwest Florida for races each Friday and Saturday night.
Maria Martinez moves finished pans of bread from racks into holding cupboards at La Favorita Bakery in Immokalee, Fla. Bakers start work at the store at 7 p.m. with a second shift of workers coming in the middle of the night to finish the baked goods and serving customers when the store opens at 4 a.m.
Maria Martinez moves finished pans of bread from racks into holding cupboards at La Favorita Bakery in Immokalee, Fla. Bakers start work at the store at 7 p.m. with a second shift of workers coming in the middle of the night to finish the baked goods and serving customers when the store opens at 4 a.m.
Maria Rodriguez covers pastries with sugar and cinnamon as workers at La Favorita Bakery in Immokalee hurry to get ready to open the store Friday morning.
Maria Rodriguez covers pastries with sugar and cinnamon as workers at La Favorita Bakery in Immokalee hurry to get ready to open the store Friday morning.
Maria Vega, right, jokes with her co-workers, including Salvador Lopez, left, as the staff at La Favorita Bakery in Immokalee, Fla., prepare baked goods before the store opens for business at 4 a.m.
Maria Vega, right, jokes with her co-workers, including Salvador Lopez, left, as the staff at La Favorita Bakery in Immokalee, Fla., prepare baked goods before the store opens for business at 4 a.m.
Field workers and day laborers wait outside of La Favorita Bakery, which is one of the pick-up points for the buses and trucks taking the workers to the fields each day.
Field workers and day laborers wait outside of La Favorita Bakery, which is one of the pick-up points for the buses and trucks taking the workers to the fields each day.
Sgt. Steve Dodson from the Collier County Sheriff's Office dumps cans of beer outside a convenience store on Boston Avenue during his patrol Friday night in Immokalee. The town has a reputation as a rough place, but Dodson says most of the calls the deputies deal with at night are alcohol-related.
Sgt. Steve Dodson from the Collier County Sheriff's Office dumps cans of beer outside a convenience store on Boston Avenue during his patrol Friday night in Immokalee. The town has a reputation as a rough place, but Dodson says most of the calls the deputies deal with at night are alcohol-related.
Sgt. Mike Stillwell uses his spot light to look for suspicious activity while patrolling Immokalee in the early-morning hours Saturday.
Sgt. Mike Stillwell uses his spot light to look for suspicious activity while patrolling Immokalee in the early-morning hours Saturday.
A Collier County Sheriff's deputy arrests a man for a domestic disturbance in Immokalee, Fla.
A Collier County Sheriff's deputy arrests a man for a domestic disturbance in Immokalee, Fla.
Simon Hernandez stacks boxes of Roma tomatoes at Immokalee Produce Shippers. The boxed tomatoes, which have been sorted and boxed by size and color, are stacked on pallets before moving them into a cooler for storage.
Simon Hernandez stacks boxes of Roma tomatoes at Immokalee Produce Shippers. The boxed tomatoes, which have been sorted and boxed by size and color, are stacked on pallets before moving them into a cooler for storage.
Workers on the grading line sort Roma tomatoes at Immokalee Produce Shippers. The line workers pull damaged and bad tomatoes before they are sorted by machine by size and color.
Workers on the grading line sort Roma tomatoes at Immokalee Produce Shippers. The line workers pull damaged and bad tomatoes before they are sorted by machine by size and color.
A resident at Horizon House rides his bike along the lit corridor of the new dorm-style housing in Immokalee. The newly built all-male dorm housing, run by Collier County, rents for $7 a night and allows eight men to share an apartment with a communal kitchen.
A resident at Horizon House rides his bike along the lit corridor of the new dorm-style housing in Immokalee. The newly built all-male dorm housing, run by Collier County, rents for $7 a night and allows eight men to share an apartment with a communal kitchen.
Barbara Daniels, a shift worker at Immokalee Friendship House, wakes the remaining residents at 5 a.m. Most residents at the shelter are awake and gone well before the required wake-up call.
Barbara Daniels, a shift worker at Immokalee Friendship House, wakes the remaining residents at 5 a.m. Most residents at the shelter are awake and gone well before the required wake-up call.
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