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  1. 06-21-2007, 12:24 PM #1
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    Houston cuts off city funding to day labor site

    Houston cuts off city funding to day labor site

    Associated Press - June 21, 2007 12:15 PM ET

    HOUSTON (AP) - A city-funded day labor center in Houston will close at the end of this month after officials decided not to renew its $100,000 contract.

    Critics have said the East End Worker Development Center encouraged illegal immigration.

    It was Houston's only city-funded day labor site -- funded through the federal Community Development Block Grant program. It's been popular with illegal workers, who gather there to seek employment.

    Last spring, then-councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs criticized the city funding. Sekula-Gibbs was running for the GOP nomination to succeed Congressman Tom Delay. She said taxpayer money shouldn't be used for something that promotes illegal immigration.

    Neighborhood Centers Incorporated has operated the center since 2005. The director of the Houston nonprofit human services agency says he'd keep operating the center if funding is found.

    Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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  2. 06-21-2007, 12:35 PM #2
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    Way to go Houston. This Northwest City is facing that same battle because the mayor wants to fund a day labor center.
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  3. 06-21-2007, 12:49 PM #3
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    Way to go Houston...remember the Alamo!!!
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  4. 06-21-2007, 12:49 PM #4
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    Wow, I can't believe the City Council did this. Mayor White is so pro-illegal I'm sure he will turn this around. Kudo's to the City Council.
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  5. 06-21-2007, 01:04 PM #5
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    Amen...about time...!...calling to thank people
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  6. 06-21-2007, 01:31 PM #6
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    Critics have said the East End Worker Development Center encouraged illegal immigration.
    Duh!
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  7. 06-21-2007, 01:57 PM #7
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    The Hurricane Katrina survivors are after the same jobs and they can vote.
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  8. 06-21-2007, 04:09 PM #8
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    Maybe sense Tancredos amendment passed they are afraid of losing fedral funding.
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    http://forum.minutemanhq.com/phpBB2/vie ... hp?t=11840

    duplicate post here
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    I say good for you Houston, set an example for other cities, thats what we need, people with some backbone




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