Posted on 07/05/2007 11:14:09 AM PDT by JZelle
Harry Thomas Jr. is the Ward 5 Council member who is meeting neighborhood opposition to his proposal to plant a day-laborer center near the Home Depot on Rhode Island Avenue Northeast.
The otherwise good residents of the Brentwood neighborhood take exception to the day laborers sleeping under their porches, drinking firewater on street corners and irrigating the trees, bushes and walls in their midst.
It is a cultural thing, and the fine folks of Brentwood just do not understand. The need to understand those from a foreign land is important, especially if they have come all this way to sleep under your porch, imbibe in bottled spirits and relieve themselves whenever it is necessary.
The enlightened Mr. Thomas wants to do right by the laborers, illegal or not, and has secured $500,000 in taxpayer money to build the center. D.C. officials have not said whether they will check the immigration status of the day laborers who congregate there. We would hope they would overlook this tiny detail.
The day laborers merely want to do the jobs that Americans refuse to do, at least when they are not sleeping under porches and showering plants with their natural fertilizer.
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Firewater...lol.
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The people in that neighborhood are already really ticked off. There have been several confrontations between the black working and middle class inhabitants and the illegals, so much so that there is an increased police presence there. If Harry Thomas thinks a day laborer center is such a good idea, how about putting it on his block? Better yet, how about ICE raid the area on a regular basis for a couple of months and see if the problem will sort itself out. And of course what Mr. Thomas is not acknowledging is the unemployment rate of black young men in the District, who have to compete with the illegals for the unskilled and semi-skilled jobs. Given that situation, the $500,000 request must be an especially bitter pill for the good people of Brentwood to swallow.
They better not shower my rose bushes with their diversity or I’ll shower them with something else.
What ticks me off, is that Houston City Council voted to not renew the contract on the day labor center in Houston. Well, some “anonymous” individual donated the $100,000.00 to keep it open for another year. Obviously, someone does not want the public to know that they support this and I would be willing to bet it’s probably business related to them.
How are their parks looking? Are the cars parked close to the picnic tables with doors open blasting the Mexican music. Do they pick up their trash when they leave? How about the beaches? They are loud and have no consideration for others. They are changing all landscapes they cross.
“...some “anonymous” individual donated the $100,000.00 to keep it open”
A member of the National Homebuilders Association, perhaps...
Why don’t they build it right outside W’s bedromm window?
“Why don’t they build it right outside W’s bedromm window?”
BUMP
A real patriot.
The same thing happens here in Northern Virginia. When several new houses were built in our neighborhood, the “laborers” left trash all over the place, catcalled all the women in the neighborhood, made obscene gestures at them, one of them even changed his pants openly in broad daylight, barely even covering himself in part with an open car door. Complains by several of the neighbors brought harassment of the neighbors by the developer and his buddies on the Arlington County Board. When gang graffiti appeared on a nearby overpass over I-66, one of our neighbors moved away. Don’t even talk about the parks being taken over, especially on Sunday, cars driving up and down the street with music blasting so loud it can be heard inside the house with all the windows closed. Loitering? Shopping centers have “no loitering” posted BOTH in English and Spanish; does no good. Not enforced.
You should see what they've done to California towns. They want their "new" surroundings to be a carbon copy of the third world towns they come from, and our own cowardly and greedy government is letting it happen.
Obviously these “day laborers” are not paying taxes. All the claims about workplace enforcement do not involve them.
I doubt there is a single hotel maid, office building janitor, busboy, or cook in Washington, DC that is a legal resident of the U.S. The last 10 years I lived there I never heard a night crew speak Emglish, and I was always told to write “basura” on anything I wanted thrown out because they did not understand the word “trash.” I’ll bet the ICE offices are cleaned every night by a bunch of illegal Salvadorans.
Thank you for saying that. I thought I was the only one who thought “yeah, they’ve sure enhanced every area they’ve squatted in.”
That’s a myth. They can make out the word “trash.” Being told to write “basura” is just somebody telling you to be culturally seeeensitive.
Just what a City Council member should be doing - helping everybody to break the law.
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