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.
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