Thread: Loitering laborers hurt businesses

Loitering laborers hurt businesses

A new and costly phenomenon is spreading across portions of the county’s commercial business districts. Parking lots and store fronts of local businesses are increasingly being flooded with day laborers in search of work.

Workers are refusing to utilize the controversial taxpayer-funded workers centers. Instead, these individuals are scaring away potential customers or at a minimum forcing women shoppers to run the gauntlet of workers to make a purchase.

Not surprisingly, more and more people are refusing to shop at such business districts, taking their families to safer, stress-free, albeit less convenient environments.

Businesses are beginning to fight back but in a manner that puts the financial burden on the taxpayer. Instead of hiring their own guards to enforce trespassing on their property, businesses are just calling the county police to do the same job but without adding to their payrolls or costing them a cent.

The police, under orders from Chief J. Thomas Manger, don’t detain and arrest the workers but just hand them a Spanish language flier and shoo them away. The workers just wander away to another location prompting more phone calls to police.

Brad Botwin, Derwood
The writer is director of Help Save Maryland.
http://oneoldvet.com/?p=6875
http://www.gazette.net/stories/061808/m ... 2373.shtml

Sounds like instead of "shooing", they need to sign up for the 287 (g) program and do some "deporting".

Wake Up Marylanders. It will be the best money you ever spent and the feds reimburse you $83 a day to detain them.

Where did you get the information of how much ICE or federal government will reimburse for detaining illegals? That is good information to give to others in the government.

USA born - you are totally on target - I prefer shopping online - save gas - no crowd - turn some bottom lines to RED!

Go online and buy on the internet. Let the stores really feel the pain.

Another example of unsafe enviroment for both our children and adults is in League City, Texas where the ILLEGALS have a "day labor" site less than 100 feet from the Police Station furnished with parking for their bicycles. Also on the same road the ILLEGALS loiter in front of the City swimming pool and at the City library sleeping on the chairs and benches both inside the library and in front of the library. The ILLEGALS continuously enter the library to use the restrooms and on at least one occasion that I witnessed, a librarian had to run Adult ILLEGALS off the computers in the children section, this seems very UNSAFE for both the children and the librarians.