Day labor sites at issue in immigration bill

Source: LA Times

Day labor sites at issue in immigration bill
L.A. officials fight an amendment that would ban localities from requiring home improvement stores to create hiring halls.
By Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer
June 23, 2007

As the U.S. Senate prepares to resume debate on an immigration bill next week, Los Angeles city officials are lobbying in opposition to an amendment that would prohibit local and state governments from requiring home improvement stores to build day labor sites.

If the federal bill passes, the amendment would preempt a proposed ordinance in Los Angeles, where there are 11 business-funded day labor sites.

The day laborer situation is a land-use issue — not an immigration issue — and should be handled locally, city officials said.

"This is quintessentially a local decision," said Thomas Saenz, counsel to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. "There is no reason for the federal government to intervene."


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Not a federal mandate.

maintain it as a "local land use" issue, but establish a Federal agency/presence to monitor the operation and empower them to arrest those
employing any day laborers found to be in the country illeagly... problem solved.

Plus, if someone is monitoring the area, the illegals won't be able to drive away the veterans who are trying to get that kind of work. (Want proof? Go to YouTube.) People of ALL races should be allowed to seek day labor work if they want it. I'm sick of Mayor VivaLaRaza always siding in with illegal aliens, instead of upholding the laws of the country he's living in.

So you want a fed down at every Home Depot?

Does nobody else think we're over-policed enough already/

Other than it that situation, a lot of us want there to be less police or to have them, at least, be less intrusive into our lives.