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Minutemen say Farm Workers Shelter is Encouraging Illegal Immigration

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The San Diego Minutemen, a group opposed to illegal immigration, wants Carlsbad city officials to reconsider their decision to give $108,500 to build a permanent farm workers shelter, it was reported Wednesday.

Group leader Jeff Schwilk told the Carlsbad City Council last night that the shelter would encourage illegal activity because most farm workers are illegal aliens, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Catholic Charities now runs a shelter, La Posada de Guadalupe, which consists of a couple of portable buildings able to house 50 workers. The council agreed last month to give Catholic Charities funds as seed money to build a permanent shelter.

The charity is planning a permanent building that would house an additional 72 farm workers at the same location, near Palomar Airport Road and El Camino Real, at a cost of about $2 million, the Union-Tribune reported.

Carlsbad Mayor Bud Lewis told the Minutemen that Catholic Charities has assured the council that farm workers who stay at La Posada will have their residency paperwork verified.

But Sister RayMonda Duvall, Catholic Charities' executive director, told the Union-Tribune outside of last night's council meeting that exceptions are sometimes made in wet or cold weather.

The $108,500 that Carlsbad is giving the charity comes from a special fund that developers are required to pay into when they build homes or commercial buildings on what has been farmland, the Union-Tribune reported. The special fund used to be administered by the state but has since been given to city officials to allot.

"If we provide housing for illegal aliens, we are aiding and abetting illegal aliens," Minuteman Michael Spencer, a Vista resident, told the council, which did not take any formal action concerning last night's shelter discussion.
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The $108,500 that Carlsbad is giving the charity comes from a special fund that developers are required to pay into when they build homes or commercial buildings on what has been farmland, the Union-Tribune reported. The special fund used to be administered by the state but has since been given to city officials to allot.

What happened to separation of church and state--or is a church charity a different matter and the special fund not considered a tax?

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