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'Home Depot' clause would bar cities from requiring labor sites
Associated Press ^ | 6/27/2007 | AP

Posted on 06/28/2007 6:00:10 AM PDT by P-40

WASHINGTON -- Home Depot is turning to Congress for help.

The home improvement company is tired of local governments forcing it to accommodate day laborers who turn up in its store parking lots seeking construction work.

The Senate has attached an amendment to a proposed immigration bill that would prohibit city councils from requiring home improvement stores to pay for shelters and services needed to maintain day labor sites.

The amendment is sponsored by Republican Senator Johnny Isakson. He says forcing companies to provide those services in order to receive permits is "extortion."

But local officials say home improvement companies have a responsibility to provide for the labor markets they attract. They also argue it's none of the federal government's business.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: aliens; day; daylaborers; homedepot; immigration; labor
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To: misharu
What I would throw up a couple of 4x4 posts and put some tin corrugated roofing up on top.

I guess they could also charge a fee to use a site and require 1099s to be filed with the IRS up front. :)
41 posted on 06/28/2007 6:22:58 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: driftdiver
The fed should be arresting those day laborers that are illegals.

True. Especially since the locals are making sure they're conveniently located in one place.

42 posted on 06/28/2007 6:23:26 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Military family member

They should charge the Day Laborers... Watch them disappear quickly.


43 posted on 06/28/2007 6:24:04 AM PDT by thebaron512
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To: sgtbono2002

Why doesn’t Home Depot have them removed for trespassing? Parking lots for businesses are usually private property. And I’d say loitering alone should get them removed. Laws for some, but not for others?


44 posted on 06/28/2007 6:25:43 AM PDT by Not just another dumb blonde
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To: mewzilla
Gee, don’t local officials have a responsibility to enforce laws against loitering.

These laws are only enforced for citizen people hanging around their friends that don't fit an ideal mold.

45 posted on 06/28/2007 6:26:08 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Always Right
This actually is a legitimate interstate commerce issue though. Local governments should not be able to target certain retailers to coerce them into supporting illegal activity.

By today's hopelessly liberal reading of "interstate commerce", pretty much anything is justified. But in this case, if you want to pretend that you respect the intent of the Constitution, no way this is a fed matter. Even though we all can assume most day laborers are illegal, you can't automatically equate one with the other. I could be a day laborer if I wanted. Someone with legal status could be a day laborer. So no, forcing Home Depot to accommodate day laborers is not the same as forcing them to accommodate illegals, even if the net result is the same. In fact, the locals could rightly BLAME the feds for the fact that so many day laborers are illegal. The locals just want to corral them into one place, and being local gubmint, they were able to force the business to do it. The feds job is to enforce immigration law, not local zoning law.

46 posted on 06/28/2007 6:28:06 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
You know, I heard that a gang problem in an Australian neighborhood was taken care of by blasting Barry Manilow tunes. Maybe the Home Depots should try it to get rid of day laborers.

I have also noticed anytime there is a group of people holding anti-illegal signs and waving the U.S. flag, then the area is suddenly clear.

47 posted on 06/28/2007 6:32:29 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: HungarianGypsy
Maybe Home Depot should just holler La Migra! periodically over a loudspeaker.
48 posted on 06/28/2007 6:35:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Huck

“Locals are right about one thing. It’s none of the feds business.”

The Feds should cut off ALL federal funds to any city/county that provides/requires anything but a call to the Border Patrol to come and haul them awsy.


49 posted on 06/28/2007 6:35:23 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: P-40
Maybe we should build a bunch of these.

Deport the workers and their families will follow.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!

50 posted on 06/28/2007 6:36:14 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: P-40

catch-22: government (doesn’t matter which level) requires private business to accomodate illegal activity “or else”. next same government goes after said business for becomming a magnet for illegal activity.


51 posted on 06/28/2007 6:37:47 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Sloth
OK, but who’s going to stop localities from trampling all over private property rights?

The 2nd amendment.

52 posted on 06/28/2007 6:37:52 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Military family member

See that No Soliciting sign? If Home Depot is required to be an Employment Agency then they should get a cut from the Contractors. In fact, I would ahem “shake them down” perhaps an Employment Procurement Charge added to the order or account for those Contractors who hire the Day Laborers on Home Depot property?


53 posted on 06/28/2007 6:41:38 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: dalereed
The Feds should cut off ALL federal funds to any city/county that provides/requires anything but a call to the Border Patrol to come and haul them awsy.

Baloney. It's not their job to enforce immigration laws, for one thing. It's the feds job. Second, day laborers may be mostly illegal, but it's not a given. They just want to corral them up so they don't muck up the surrounding area. They are dealing with the feds mess, not the other way around. The shelter at the Home Depot is none of the feds business.

54 posted on 06/28/2007 6:44:10 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: P-40
I know this sucks for Home Depot, but if they are known for having available labor on site, then some contractors might be more inclined to go out of their way to visit that location. This might actually attract some business for them.

Not withstanding the potential for new business, the local governments are way out of line to require accommodations.

55 posted on 06/28/2007 6:45:54 AM PDT by T.Smith
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To: Huck

Go to hell!


56 posted on 06/28/2007 6:46:13 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: mewzilla

Loitering on private property? If the home depot doesn’t complain, it’s not their business, is it? They could pass an ordinance, I suppose. But instead they just said put em in a pen.


57 posted on 06/28/2007 6:46:21 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: dalereed
Go to hell!

LOL. Sen. Voinavich? Is that you?

58 posted on 06/28/2007 6:48:13 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: P-40
I guess that means Congress should provide shelters for the hookers the congressmen attract?

It does. The prostitutes are housed in the Hart, Dirksen and Russell office buildings.

59 posted on 06/28/2007 6:51:16 AM PDT by Midtowngirl
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To: P-40

Would like to know WHERE this is happening so we can write our commissioners.


60 posted on 06/28/2007 6:51:55 AM PDT by Fawn (If it wasn't for FR, I'd be having an Existential MELTDOWN..............right now)
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