Posted on 08/10/2008 11:59:18 AM PDT by kellynla
Brace yourself, Los Angeles. A storm has been building for four years over a controversial city ordinance on day laborers that has infuriated conservatives nationwide, and it's about to break -- perhaps as early as this week.
The ordinance, which was approved last week by the City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee and will soon appear before the full council, requires home-improvement chains seeking to build new big-box stores or renovate existing ones to submit "day laborer operating standards" to the city. These standards don't require the stores to build shelters for the workers, but if day laborers become a nuisance, that is the main remedy outlined in the ordinance. It also directs that the shelters be covered and include amenities such as drinking water, restrooms, places to sit and trash cans.
As anyone who has ever shopped at a warehouse-sized hardware store like Home Depot knows, they tend to be magnets for day laborers, most of whom are probably undocumentedimmigrants. Proponents of the ordinance argue that these workers constitute a public nuisance, one that the stores themselves are obliged to eliminate by providing shelters where the workers can gather without blocking traffic, littering the streets or urinating on sidewalks. But anti-illegal-immigrant activists see ordinances like Los Angeles' as something else: an attempt by municipal governments to coddle lawbreakers and even encourage illegal immigration.
When the city of Burbank ordered Home Depot to build a shelter as a condition of opening a new store in 2006, it touched off protest as far away as Washington. As Congress weighed a comprehensive immigration reform bill, amendments forbidding cities from demanding such shelters were attached to both the House and Senate versions. The immigration bills failed, and so did the amendments.
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This congregating of illegals outside Home Depot has been very bad for business on Long Island. My female relatives there tell me they are too intimidated by the gangs of men they have to walk by to get to the entrance. They don’t shop at HD anymore because of this.
Shelters would be good. Like corrals. Keep them all in one place, of course with operating security cameras.
Keep them out of parking lots where they can grab and harass women and teenagers.
Liberals can back union members getting paid twice what they’re worth as long as they also back slavery lite - where illegals work for nothing.
Well, I have seen asian and white guys at the shelter in Burbank with the hombres. The newspaper said they get as much CASH work as the other.
Glendale built a shelter across the street, and it sits unused. They congregate around the front entrance, causing havoc. And in Van Nuys, there are usually 100+ hombres lining the fenceline....it just looks so bad...trash everywhere. I go to Lowes for my shopping also.
“My female relatives there tell me they are too intimidated by the gangs of men they have to walk by to get to the entrance.”
And your “female relatives” are wise to avoid Home Depot.
I have a business associate who wholesales merchandise and he has been robbed and his truck full of merchandised hijacked not once but TWICE by Hispanic gangs.(His warehouse is behind the Home Depot in Costa Mesa, Orange County, CA) which is normally a very safe area.
If they're a public nuisance, arrest them. There are laws against public nuisances.
I know. I have heard many horror stories from relatives in NY and NJ about the rising crime in the places where these guys hang out. Girls being grabbed at school bus stops, robbery, violent fights, plus the things you mention.
There was a story in the NY Daily News a couple of years ago about a girl grabbed from a bus stop by illegals, taken to a park nearby, and gang-raped.
How about corraling them all south of the border, before they ever set foot on American soil?
Next, they will be relieving themselves in the shelters, which will result in a call for porta-potties alongside. And, how about a water supply so they won’t get thirsty?
The possibilities are endless.
Went to the Home Depot in Signal Hill last Friday and there wasn’t one single illegal in the new shelter.
That because they were chasing my truck across the parking lot!
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“Went to the Home Depot in Signal Hill last Friday and there wasn’t one single illegal in the new shelter.
That because they were chasing my truck across the parking lot!”
LOL...The Tonight Show needs you...badly!
Seems like a fine idea to me. Build the shelters, get all the illegals there together, and then have ICE drop by every day or two.
Why don't they just have Home Depot built some apartments for them?
/sarc
If they're a nuisance making them more comfortable isn't going to make them go away.
I'm all for the shelters, as long as they are sheltering ICE offices.
So, use Federal funds to build these things. Just have an “in” door..... that goes up a ramp to an ICE van.
Show them that WE can use civil disobedience to bring the truth to light.
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