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    VA-Herndon considers new rules against day laborers

    Herndon considers new rules against day laborers

    08/15/2008

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    Town officials want to take steps to make it harder for day laborers to gather on sidewalks and street corners.

    The workers have returned to public areas since the town closed a job center for the mostly Hispanic workers last year.

    Officials want increased police activity and zoning enforcement where the workers gather; a ban on carryout alcoholic beverage sales downtown; and removal of pay phones that the workers use to call their home countries.

    Also under consideration are a permit process for homeowners who rent out rooms, in hopes of cutting the number of workers who live in crowded conditions. And bicycles that are illegally parked in public places could be confiscated.

    The workers' presence has vexed some town leaders.

    "I'm getting a lot of pressure from my constituents to do something about those 30 guys standing on the street all the time," said Town Council member Dennis D. Husch, who proposed the new rules. "I got an e-mail from a lady that lives on the west end of Alabama Drive talking about how scared she was, how afraid she was to go out at night or to go out during the daytime because of the men just hanging out. ... People shouldn't have to live like that."

    In 2005, the Town Council voted to spend about $400,000 in taxpayer funds to build a job center for day laborers. The goal, council members said at the time, was to keep the laborers off the streets.

    But a national outcry arose over the center because many of those laborers were in the country illegally. The mayor and several council members who supported the center were ousted in the next election. The new council has since closed the center.

    The new proposals are troubling to some.

    "We're going to monitor events, and we're frankly concerned that the day laborers' civil rights will be violated," said Chris Newman, the legal director of the National Day Labor Organizing Network, an advocacy group based in Los Angeles.

    With the job center closed, the workers took to gathering on a dirt path near a park. But in a few months, the workers were back in the center of town, along the sidewalks and under trees around the corner of Elden Street and Alabama Drive.

    Ellen Kaminsky was a member of the board of directors of Project Hope and Harmony, the group that ran the job center. She said town leaders threw away a solution that had been successful and now are considering overly harsh measures.

    The measures being considered have their own issues. Alcohol sales are regulated by the Virginia Department of Alcohol Beverage Control, and pay phones are installed by private companies. The town attorney has advised officials not to adopt an anti-solicitation ordinance, pointing out that it might not hold up in court without action by the Virginia General Assembly.

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    The town attorney has advised officials not to adopt an anti-solicitation ordinance, pointing out that it might not hold up in court without action by the Virginia General Assembly.
    It sounds like it is time to fire this town attorney, and get someone who understands the process.
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    Jobs in Mexico....

    Send them back to Mexico and/or their home country....I’ve heard that Mexico in particular has plenty jobs available that the people just won't do.....
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    The town attorney has advised officials not to adopt an anti-solicitation ordinance, pointing out that it might not hold up in court without action by the Virginia General Assembly.
    Hmm...so I guess prostitutes are allowed to stand on street corners as it currently is and solicit business in this city...
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    Standing around on street corners used to be called loitering and was against the law. It should still be against the law. Someone needs to explain to them that this is an American law whether they like it or not. And to heck with their so-called civil rights. The civil rights of the citizens are not being observed and citizens should not live in fear of going outside because a bunch of unpredictable strangers are hanging out there. American citizens have first dibs on civil rights.
    Good job by Herndon.

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    This town needs to contact Immigration Reform Law Institute. They can help them with wording on ordinances.
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