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*Town Votes Day Laborer Center Must Check Paperwork* (Herndon, Virginia)
WDBJ TV, Roanoke ^ | 15 August 2007 | WDBJ TV / AP

Posted on 08/15/2007 9:12:23 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

Town votes day laborer center must check paperwork

Associated Press - August 15, 2007 10:35 PM ET

HERNDON, Va. (AP) - The town of Herndon's day laborer center now must check the paperwork of workers who congregate there.

After two days of hearing debate, the town council voted tonight that a new group must run the center. The current operator -- a nonprofit called Project Hope and Harmony -- says it's not their job to enforce immigration law.

Herndon's day laborer center was 1 of the region's first. It has sparked debate over illegal immigration and how to deal with workers who used to gather at a 7-11 parking lot, waiting to be hired for the day.

Some residents said they were pleased after the vote because services should not go to illegal immigrants.

Others -- including the site director -- are afraid the ruling means that workers will no longer participate in the program and go back to Herndon's streets and parking lots.

Information from: WTTG-TV, http://www.fox5dc.com


TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aliens; daylaborers; herndon; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; immigration; virginia

1 posted on 08/15/2007 9:12:26 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo
This could be a great cookie cutter template for many other communities. If they cannot outlaw the centers, demand that contractors who run them can be audited, and must check and verify documentation. If they cannot do this, then close the centers down.

I think many other communities will adopt measures similar to this town in Herndon.

2 posted on 08/15/2007 9:17:06 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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Others -- including the site director -- are afraid the ruling means that workers will no longer participate in the program and go back to Herndon's streets and parking lots.

Well, duh! Why don't they just go back home?

3 posted on 08/15/2007 9:20:45 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: vox humana
give em time give em time....

Actually, what I read on the internet is really entertaining if not humorous thing is this:

The PREVIOUS lib town council and mayor, all of whom were booted out of office by massive anti-illegal alien public revolt, had the following scheme.

Step One: They REFUSED to pass or enforce local ordinances outlawing vagrancy, loitering and solicitation. In other words, they CREATED the problem.

Step Two: The problem festered so much, it brought the "need" for an officially sanction, taxpayer funded day labor center in that town. They said that if the day labor center would be approved, they would then get them off the streets, and agree to a deal, and pass meaningful regulations outlawing congregating of the "jornaleros".

Step Three: That is exactly what happened. The center went up, the illegals went over there instead, and they were then more or less off the streets or in front of the 7-Eleven, what with strong enforcement of new anti-loitering laws.

Step Four: The lib/socialists are then overwhelmingly kicked out of office. Loitering regs THEY passed are still on the books.

Step Five: New group of patriots in office, move to put the screws on the illegals, the day labor center, and the bleeding heart, look-the-other way NGO which runs it.

Bottom Line: The illegals cannot now easily take back to the streets (as one woman warns or threatens), because the strong laws from the previous lib council are still on the books--unlikely to be repealed--and they will be picked up there and deported as well.

Hardy har har........LOL

4 posted on 08/15/2007 9:44:47 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Let us hope so!


5 posted on 08/15/2007 10:03:58 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
The current operator -- a nonprofit called Project Hope and Harmony -- says it's not their job to enforce immigration law.

well --- D'OH!

It's not their job to service illegal criminal aliens, either.

They choose to do it!

6 posted on 08/15/2007 10:20:58 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
it's not their job to enforce immigration law.

That's like saying it wasn't Michael Vick's job to enforce cruelty to animal laws.

7 posted on 08/15/2007 10:28:05 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; holdonnow

8 posted on 08/15/2007 10:29:21 PM PDT by Petronski (Just say no to Rudy McRomney.)
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To: Publius6961
It is a big front for illegal aliens.

That and another group in there. And they damned well know it, and they know what they are doing. I would call for an audit of their arses if not an outright raid of the place, and shut it down under RICO and I.C.E. violations.

9 posted on 08/15/2007 10:42:04 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I heard the only difference between the day labor centers and the street corner illegals is the quality of the forged documents they must show at the centers.
10 posted on 08/16/2007 1:46:10 AM PDT by txroadhawg ("To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors." Ronald Reagan)
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To: txroadhawg

In that sense, I guess most folks are “documented” after all! /sarc


11 posted on 08/16/2007 1:57:53 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
The Democrats created their own roach motel !


BUMP

12 posted on 08/16/2007 2:17:14 AM PDT by capitalist229 (ANDS)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!

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13 posted on 08/16/2007 3:07:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
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14 posted on 08/16/2007 6:04:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Travis McGee; 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks guys.


15 posted on 08/16/2007 7:29:54 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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Anytime bttt.


16 posted on 08/16/2007 11:47:49 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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