Thread: NYTimes Ed: LA Day Labor Sites Good Thing

August 13, 2008
Editorial
Day Laborers and Home Depot
It’s rare, in the parched landscape of the immigration debate, to come across policies that are simple, realistic and humane. But here is one: The Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on Wednesday on an ordinance requiring big-box home-improvement stores to protect order and safety when day laborers gather in their parking lots looking for work.

The ordinance is primarily aimed at Home Depot, which has 11 stores in Los Angeles and would like to open at least a dozen more. It would require new or renovating stores to have a plan for what to do when the day laborers show up, as they almost always do when Home Depot moves in.

Like any land-use law governing things like parking-lot lighting, curbs and sidewalks, the ordinance treats milling crowds of laborers and idling trucks as an integral fact of Home Depot’s business that should be managed before it becomes chaotic and hazardous. The solution is basic prevention, and could be as simple as setting up an area somewhere on store property with shade, toilets, drinking water and trash cans.

Opposition has erupted from the usual camps. Not all day laborers are undocumented immigrants or even immigrants, but a lot of them are, and the thought of doing anything that would make their lives easier makes some restrictionists howl and clutch their chests. “Lounges for Laborers?â€

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L.A. Ordinance would require shelters for day laborers

Please send a note to Lowes, Home Depot, and the L.A. City Council

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Another idiotic liberal trash! They want HDepot to provide special shelter, restrooms, food to illegal immigrants looking for work. Do they do this to Americans looking for work?

I am an a American Citizen, I use the restroom and drinking fountain/ vending machines inside Home Depot when I go there to shop. why can't they? These Liberal nuts just can't think of anything sane.

Unbelievable bilge. The only humane thing to do about illegal alien day laborers in LA is catch them and deport them.