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    Palm Beach Florida ~ Don't loiter on the laborers

    Don't loiter on the laborers

    Palm Beach Post Editorial
    Saturday, March 14, 2009

    Victor Vasquez left Atlanta a couple of months ago because he no longer could find work in construction. He moved his family to Palm Beach County, hoping that he would fare better. He hasn't.

    Mr. Vasquez was among nearly two dozen mostly Guatemalan immigrants outside the Home Depot on Lake Worth Road on a recent afternoon, hoping to snag a job from a contractor or homeowner. At sunup, as many as 200 - a number that has swelled with the recession - gather at entrances to the parking lot and swarm the arriving cars.

    As The Post reported Monday, Home Depot blames them for causing accidents and driving away customers. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has done undercover stings, but law enforcement alone is not the long-term solution to a problem that is less about loitering than about illegal immigration. Yet immigration reform is not likely to be a priority for President Obama or Congress until 2011. Economic relief and health care are the priorities this year, and 2010 is an election year. In the meantime, Palm Beach County must do what cities have done and offer a short-term solution while waiting for Washington.

    "The existence of day laborers is beyond our control," said Home Depot spokesman Craig Fishel. "It is a complex community matter that requires the leadership of federal and local government in cooperation with civic groups, law enforcement and businesses."

    Most day laborers do not have cars. They walk to the closest place where they might find work. That explains why there are no laborers at the Home Depot in Lantana a few miles from the Lake Worth Road store. Of the workers who live in that western corridor, most reside in unincorporated Palm Beach County. Thus, the county should follow the lead of Lake Worth, Jupiter and Loxahatchee Groves, and cities in California, Arizona, Texas and other states with large immigrant populations. The county should set up a day-labor center, to prevent the accidents and other hazards that Home Depot has complained about.

    Good models are out there. The centers in Palm Beach County cities offer all immigrants, legal and illegal, not just potential work but English classes and other training. The city of Burbank, Calif., required Home Depot to help finance a day-labor center as a condition of opening a store in 2006. Home Depot gave land to the city next to its parking lot and provides $94,000 a year in operating costs. Pomona, Calif., provides about half of the $330,000 budget of its day-labor center, which opened in 1998.

    Palm Beach County should not wait for Washington. It needs only to duplicate the solutions others have found.

    http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/conte ... nform_artr
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    Good models are out there. The centers in Palm Beach County cities offer all immigrants, legal and illegal, not just potential work but English classes and other training. The city of Burbank, Calif., required Home Depot to help finance a day-labor center as a condition of opening a store in 2006. Home Depot gave land to the city next to its parking lot and provides $94,000 a year in operating costs. Pomona, Calif., provides about half of the $330,000 budget of its day-labor center, which opened in 1998.
    Whichever editor wrote this garbage should a) go to the emergency room immediately; or b) be subjected to a polygraph about being American.
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    Why don't the construction unions raise a stink about this? (as if I didn't really know. no need to send me an answer, thanks)
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    Home Depot has been complicit in allowing day laborers to gather outside their stores, so they deserve whatever fallout they get.

    Opening "day labor" centers are ridiculous, we already have job centers. Anyone here legally is more than welcome to take advantage of them.

    Those here illegally deserve nothing less than deportation.
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    Looks like every single comment at the link agrees with the posters here.

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