Laborer center plan for NE hit(DC)

The Washington Times ^ | 9-14-07 | Gary Emerling

[JZelle]

About two dozen demonstrators gathered outside a D.C. Zoning Commission meeting last night to object to plans to place a day-laborer center in a Northeast shopping plaza.

"I do not want to see a day-labor center in the area," said Pat Smith, a program analyst who lives a block from the proposed site, near a Home Depot at 901 Rhode Island Ave. NE. "I don't want to see my taxpaying dollars going to illegal immigrants."

D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., Ward 5 Democrat, plans to spend $500,000 in city funds for the project, which he says would also provide employment and job-training services for area residents.

Protesters yesterday chartered a bus from the Brentwood neighborhood where Mr. Thomas has proposed building the center to One Judiciary Square in Northwest, where the zoning commission is headquartered.

They arrived at about 5:45 p.m. and stood in a semicircle, chanting and holding signs that said "$500,000 for what" and "no centers equals peace."

The effort was organized in part by the ad hoc group DefendDC, which opposes illegal immigration.

To "have a District facility that allows this to go on under the protection of the D.C. government is an outrage," said William Buchanan, a city resident and one of the group's founders. "It is a defiance of federal law."

[gubamyster]

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[zerosix]

"It is a defiance of federal law."

It is a defiance of Federal Law but watch as the Feds either turn their heads the other way, or whine that "they simply haven't the manpower to take care of it."

The awful shame is that our very own Pres. Bush referred to the Minute Men as a "vigilante group."

They appear to be the only kind of "manpower" that seems to be ready, willing and able to do the job the "gub'mint" is unable to provide regardless of how many federal employees they have on the taxpayers' dole.

[Travis McGee]

Current federal law 8USC 1373(a) PROHIBITS SANCTUARY CITIES. It reads as follows:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of federal, state, or local law, a federal, state, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual."

U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

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Invasion: \In*va"sion\, n. [L. invasio: cf. F. invasion. See Invade.] [1913 Webster]

1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

[Razz Barry]

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