Posted on 03/10/2009 8:40:54 AM PDT by pillut48
"...The onslaught, a symptom of the voracious competition for dwindling numbers of day jobs, can be surprising to the unsuspecting, and even frightening.
In recent years, the Hispanic day laborers have become as much a part of the scenery at The Home Depot west of Lake Worth as the fence and hedges, and as more lose full-time jobs in construction or landscaping, their numbers seem to have grown.
The Home Depot is not pleased. Blaming the job seekers for causing accidents and driving away customers, the world's largest home improvement retailer has been working to discourage them from rushing vehicles in the driveways and trespassing in the parking lot. But the need for work keeps pushing the men forward, and the result has been an entrenched standoff.
Garcia, an undocumented Guatemalan national who had a regular job in construction until being laid off late last year, said he and the others only want to work and have no other way to find steady pay.
"We're not here because we want to be here," he said in Spanish. "We need to be."
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You always hear how the Immigration cannot round up illegals because they don’t always know where they are. Why doesn’t Home Depot give them a call?
I think Home Depot is upset because they are undercutting HD’s price for installing ceramic tile.
A “Mexican Standoff”?
I hate to say this but the term “Mexican Standoff” does not mean what many people think it means, a stalemate.
The term origionated in the OLD WEST where Mexicans were looked down upon with disgust.
When two western miners or cowboys got into a fight and one was whipped, the looser would declare it a a “Mexican Standoff”, not wanting to say he lost.
Stalemate=standoff, no winner.
“Mexican Standoff”= you lost.
Imagine that! Maybe one day I'll get my driver's license picture taken by someone who doesn't speak English.
Remember all the ‘millions of poor undocumented workers, hiding in the woodwork’??
Guess they found that woodwork would work at Home Depot!
Also remember that it’s a good bet that NONE of these day workers declare the income the make at these jobs.
***General contractors and builders often send their wives in trucks to pick up supplies at the store, he said, and the women are sometimes startled when well-meaning workers surround the truck and try to open the doors.***
Woops!
My husband does that to me all the time.
If anybody, ESPECIALLY A STRANGE MAN, opens my truck door, I chamber a round in my 9mm!
***Are you F-in’ kidding me? No one who means well will surround my car and try to open my doors. NO ONE.***
That’s why my 9mm is right next to me in my purse.
Yup. I have no sympathy for HD.
Thanks
Ping!
Exactly! If some man tries to open my car door he’s going to get a face full of pepper spray.
Don't worry; the ACLU will bring this to a quick resolution.
But the need for work keeps pushing the men forward, and the result has been an entrenched standoff.
Sounds like a good time to check out the entrenchees; trespassing is against the law, and the police can request identification. Yeah, right.
Garcia, an undocumented Guatemalan national who had a regular job in construction until being laid off late last yearillegal alien, said he and the others only want to work and have no other way to find steady pay.
I wish liberals would learn to say things in 20,000 words or less.
After repeated warnings, meetings and occasional trespassing arrests, the sheriff's office has resorted in recent months to undercover stings to try to keep the laborers in place.
Keep them in place? I think the proper word should be deported.
The day laborers are almost all Guatemalans and admit good-naturedly that they occasionally trespass onto The Home Depot's property. They say there is no other way for them to get the attention of potential hirers.
I'm trespassing on your property. Just smile and wave back.
"We're here for our families," said Moyno, 22, who came to Florida from Guatemala a year and a half ago and declined to give his last name because he is in the country illegally.
I'm speechless. I thought that word was struck from the dictionary by the Ninth Circuit.
Others feel differently. Miles said the sheriff's office receives calls from customers who are frightened or annoyed after being surrounded by job seekers. General contractors and builders often send their wives in trucks to pick up supplies at the store, he said, and the women experience the icy grip of terror as strangers surround the truck and open the doors. are sometimes startled when well-meaning workers surround the truck and try to open the doors.
Local store managers declined to comment. A corporate spokesman said in a statement that "the existence of day laborers is a complex social issue beyond The Home Depot's control. Like many businesses in the community, we maintain a policy of fear at the thought of being the subject of protest or lawsuit at our stores."
Good-natured, benevolent, migrant workers merely seeking work as they terrorize everybody in sight.
It's a good thing that these women don't live near the Mexican border, where they may find themselves benevolently driven across the border where they would benevolently be introduced to the international sex trade.
This one of the craziest articles I've ever read. Putting a positive spin on strangers surrounding a woman in her car or truck and pulling open the doors....it's an outrage.
A nation without borders is not a nation; it's an international flophouse. I'm just glad Hussein Obama will fix this.
And the sons-dez-la-beech in Washington wanted citizenship conferred upon these. Wagging my head in disgust - still.
How many points for hitting a Guatemalan? Drive through the crowd a few times, I think they will stop continuing to flock there. Even birds learn after awhile to stick to the statues.
“And we know they are well meaning how?”
Because they´re strangers who are opening the door to your vehicle without your permission? What´s so hard to understand?
That was funny!
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