double edged sword for them, if they tried to get them off, protests
then leave them alone, now the “day laborers” have “rights”
right to someone else’s property, money
reminds me of real estate law, if you own land, and allow people to use your land as a passage for so many years and don’t do anything, it becomes “their right of way” even though it’s your property
Understood. People may have protested. No one ever said doing the right thing was easy, though. Home Depot has done the wrong thing. Now they will pay for it.
then leave them alone, now the “day laborers” have “rights”
Yes. Which they could have avoided if they had done the right thing. Maybe there would have been protests, maybe not.
In either case, Home Depot, et al, would be in a position to be able to say that they took steps to keep illegal day workers off their property. As it is, they did nothing, and in fact they benefited from the illegals being there (people who came to find day laborers would shop there). Now they don't want to be responsible.
right to someone else’s property, money
I agree that "two wrongs don't make a right", but it was foreseeable.
reminds me of real estate law, if you own land, and allow people to use your land as a passage for so many years and don’t do anything, it becomes “their right of way” even though it’s your property
Excellent analogy.