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Because many of these folks are likely illegals. No, I do not have proof. But they stand around, ripe for the picking, and the government does nothing about it. There's a 7-11 in Herndon where they stand around urinating on the sidewalk and making lewd comments to passing females. The police are busy at the tollbooth on the nearby toll road, yanking legal citizens out of their cars for not wearing a seatbelt. I am not making this up...would that I were!

Because many of these folks are likely illegals. No, I do not have proof. But they stand around, ripe for the picking, and the government does nothing about it.

Then a shelter might be a good pickup point for INS, right? Win/Win.

There's a 7-11 in Bailey's Crossroads with exactly the same issue. Dozens of unemployed day laborers, and I have no doubt that they are illegal aliens.

In fact several of the 9/11 hijackers made their phoney Virginia ID connection at this very parking lot (and used a fake address 50 yards away). So obviously there is a serious market for document fraud in this innocent "day labor community."

I'm surprised about the PD grabbing folks for seatbelt violations in Herndon (presumably you mean at the Toll Road exits). Unlike Maryland, Virginia's seatbelt law requires a primary, causal offense in order to be cited (e.g., you can't just be pulled over for the seatbelt, you must have another primary violation). I think for children (kiddies) it's still a primary offense.

Warner tried to change the law from secondary to primary this year, but it was defeated in the House and Senate.

Institute a Primary Seat Belt Law