Los Angeles May Require Home Improvement Centers To Provide Permanent Day Laborer Centers At Private Expense |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 5:55 am |
| Tags: immigration, day laborers, illegal aliens, hispanics |
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O.K., Anchor Towners, are you still looking for a reason to support Assemblyman Paul Bauer's proposed immigration reform ordinance? I got just the ticket for you.Yes, I know we're a long way from reaching the stage where Los Angeles is at right now. But what Paul Bauer and the 73% who voted support for him on KTUU's poll just a couple of days ago want is to prevent us from reaching that point in the first place. In other words, deal with the problem while it is still small.And the problem in L.A. is so out of hand that there are multiple centers where day laborers, most of them obviously illegals, hang out looking for work. It's positively feudalistic in concept. Typically they assemble at a staging location early in the day, then prospective employers drive up and pick out the laborers they think will work best. Darwinian selection of the fittest. What a giant step backwards in workers' rights!Because the proliferation of these day laborer centers is generating a host of social [ Full article ] |
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