Local Taxpayers Close Down Thousand Oaks Day Laborer Center!

ventura county star ^ | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | A, Genovese

[cowboy_code]

History was made in Thousand Oaks California on the corner of Hampshire Boulevard and Royal Oaks Street, Saturday July 12. Hundreds of illegal alien day laborers have been crowded in this peaceful city owned park area along Hampshire Road in Old Thousand Oaks. For many years, hundreds of possible illegal alien day laborers have littered this area. Sadly, this rundown area is the first thing outside tourists see when tourists exit the 101 Freeway on their way to visit the state-of-the-art Thousand Oaks City Theater complex. This Thousand Oaks city sponsored day laborer center was essentially CLOSED for that one day.

Ventura county residents, taxpayers and voters will recall that the Thousand Oaks City Council has spent $89,000, appropriated through the city's Community Development Block Grant Fund to build the center and with an annual maintenance site cost is about $20,000. That is taxpayer's $100,00 spent a year costs to have this DLC (Day Laborer Center) open. Also to help the day laborers further, a social service agency based in Oxnard, provides English classes to the day workers. The program is being funded with a $25,000. All the while other proud city fun traditions like the annual 40 plus years-old Conejo Valley Days parade and festival cannot be held for lack of city funding. Also there are many press articles demonstrating that local police and fire city services continue to suffer from lack of city budgetary support.

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[Kolb]

Yeah, and the first one is about 1/2 block from my house. Ask me how having a huge influx of illegal immigrants really made our neighborhood a great place to live (murders, rapes, prostitution, drugs, gangs, property crimes, traffic, trash, abandoned cars etc.).

We told the city council this would happen way back when and it fell on deaf ears then and still does today.

[WesternPacific]

Published/shared pictures and videos are powerful especially if it shows the American citizen facilitating illegal activities and the illegal alien. You know, Make em Famous!

I've always wondered how effective it would be to publish a local/regional/ or national magazine consisting of pictures of people picking-up and or working illegal aliens. Kinda like the prostitution pictures published to punish and embarrass the prostitution crowd.

[calex59]

Thousand Oaks is a beautiful community(been there several times on business), and I am glad to see they have done something about this problem.

[CaliGirl-R]

Here’s a website that takes pics of illegals getting picked up by employers. I don’t know how up-to-date it is.

http://www.wehirealiens.com/index.asp

Lots more input from the public as to which companies hire illegals and which companies DON’T.