Three days after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida on Sept. 28 as a Category 4 storm, Johnny Aburto arrived in Port Charlotte, a mostly white community of 64,000 popular with retirees on the state’s southwestern coast. The town suffered extensive damage during the storm: roofs blown off, homes flooded. There was a lot of work to be done.
Aburto, 42, was there to do it. Originally from Nicaragua, he is part of a large, informal, overwhelmingly immigrant workforce that travels the
