From KNBC TV (Los Angeles):
Big-box, home-improvement stores in Los Angeles will have to set aside space for day laborers under an ordinance passed by the City Council on Wednesday.
When the ordinance takes effect — the mayor has to sign it, and most city laws take effect 30 days afterward — it will apply to stores such as The Home Depot that have 100,000 square feet or more, or any structure where 250,000 square feet or more of warehouse floor area is added.
The shelters must be easily accessible and include drinking water, bathrooms, tables, seating and trashcans. The stores may be required to work with Los Angeles police in developing a security plan, according to the unanimous vote by the 15-member lawmaking body.
People who live near Home Depot stores have complained of day laborers drinking beer, urinating in yards or other unseemly behavior.
“It provides for safe and dignified hiring locations where contingent workers can defend their basic rights,” said the group’s executive director, Pablo Alvarado.
Yo Pablo, exactly what would be the “basic rights” of someone that shouldn’t even be in this country? When the first action by these day laborers is to violate US laws and sovereignty, why should Home Depot’s first action be to provide porta-potties and free water? Instead why can’t Home Depot use the heads of these illegals to scrub out the porta-potties?
A US-based company, guilty of no crime, is now being forced against its will by the government to provide comfort to someone that is not a US citizen, that is not hanging around their parking lots illegally, that harm the US economy, and have childcare and healthcare that are subsidized by US taxpayers.
Asinine.
You want to solve this invasion of the US? Instead of allowing them to hang around Home Depot why don’t we ship these illegals to the local shooting range for the purpose of holding the targets? Them and the people that hire them too.
Los Angeles, Home Depot, day labor, Pablo Alvarado
4 responses so far ↓
1 Linz // Aug 18, 2008 at 8:51 am
I mean, isn’t loitering illegal or something?
2 Jim // Aug 18, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hmmm…
If I were in HD’s shoes at that point, I’d just renovate the stores so they had 99,500 sq ft of warehouse space, and then if I need more then that… open a second HD right next door…
Does that work?
–Jim
3 dagamore // Aug 19, 2008 at 3:27 am
Isn’t this a RICO issue, since the city is forcing all HD/Lowes/whatnot to build something that supports breaking the law?
4 Malibu // Aug 19, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Next we will have to provide a mandatory lunch break and provide the food too.
I think we should tax ammunition at $1000 a round. Home reloads exempt of course. Most gun enthusiast know how to make reloads and this will keep only those qualified to handle a weapon with loaded guns.
This will keep the idiots, drunks, and gang bangers stuck using broken beer bottles.