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A task force calling for a day laborer workforce center will present its recommendations to the public during a meeting Monday from 4 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the A.J. Ferlazzo Building, 15941 Donald Curtis Drive, Woodbridge. The Day Laborers' Task Force's four-page report calls for a non-profit group to run a workforce center in Woodbridge as a 1- to 3-year pilot program. A $150,000 preliminary budget for the center includes funding for two full-time employees. The center would be a place for up to 100 temporary workers to wait for daily employment from building contractors. The task...

County officials say that the taxpayer-funded “pavilion” for day laborers, which opened in Shirlington late last year to complaints that it was an incentive for illegal immigrants to congregate, has already shot past its anticipated budget and is facing problems of unruly behavior at the site. The pavilion, located at 27th Street South and South Shirlington Road, is open weekdays from 6 a.m. to noon as a place for workers to gather and be picked up by construction and landscaping employers. The Shirlington Education and Employment Center (SEEC) oversees the facility, and the county government provided $30,000 when the facility...

www.foxnews.com WETA Loses NIMBY Fight Friday, August 08, 2003 WASHINGTON — The "Not in My Back Yard" syndrome — often applied to people who support noble causes in theory as long as the structures to support those causes are not built in "their" neighborhoods — has hit the home of programs like the always politically-correct NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (search). The folks at WETA (search), the Washington-area flagship station for the high-brow, culturally aware Public Broadcasting System (search), are vexed by Arlington County, Virginia's proposed $100,000 pavilion to house area day laborers who currently stand on county land near WETA's...

Bleeding-heart liberalism for thee, but not for me. That is the expedient philosophy of the wealthy Rockefeller family. Last week, the Rockefeller rule was on full display at a little-noticed hearing in Arlington County, Va. There, Mrs. Sharon Percy Rockefeller vehemently objected to one of the Left's trendiest pet government projects: publicly subsidized day labor centers for illegal aliens. Among the most vocal advocates and funders of these illegal alien shelters? None other than the New York City-based Rockefeller Foundation. Last fall, a Rockefeller Foundation-funded day labor site for "undocumented workers" opened in Madison, Wis. Last summer, Rockefeller Foundation-funded writer...

http://www.fairus.org/html/newsroom.html Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) STEIN REPORT XXXXX Friday, August 01 2003 17:57:07 ET XXXXX PBS' NIMBY TAKE ON AN ILLEGAL ALIEN HIRING HALL Although illegal immigration gets positive coverage on PBS, when it comes to actually interacting with the people that our porus border admits, PBS execs take a different tack. This became apparent during the debate over a hiring hall for illegal aliens in Arlington County. The County voted to put the hiring hall close to the studios of WETA, where the Newshour and other programming is taped. According to the Northern Virginia Journal, " WETA's...

WETA officials, who had strongly opposed Arlington County's decision to build a $100,000 pavilion and gathering place for day laborers near the television company's Shirlington offices, now say they will work with the county on the project despite their continued concerns about traffic and safety. The pavilion, approved by the Arlington County Board in a 4 to 1 vote this week, will be built on county-owned land where some public television employees park. © 2003 The Washington Post Company

For Immediate Release Friday, August 1, 2003 Contact:Diana Sun (703) 228-3247 (voice), (703) 228-4611 (TTY) County Board Approves Pick-Up Site for Day Laborers Project Will Address Safety, Traffic Concerns At its July 29 recessed meeting, the Arlington County Board voted 4-1 to appropriate up to $140,000 to create a pick-up site for day laborers in the Shirlington area. The funds will be used to purchase and install a covered shelter and related equipment and landscaping for the pick-up site. "The Board acted in response to numerous concerns from the community," said Arlington County Board Chairman Paul Ferguson. "This pick-up site...

PBS cares about the riff-raff and plight of undocumented aliens and condemning mean-spirited conservatives for not caring about them -- think of many prime time PBS specials on those being "left behind" and lectures from Bill Moyers -- but not when they actually have to see them next door. Earlier this week, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, CEO of WETA, the Washington, DC PBS station really located in Arlington County, Virginia, lashed out at the county board for voting to build a pavilion, to house day laborers waiting for work, next door to WETA's studios where the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week...

Day laborers might soon leave the south Arlington street corner where they wait early each morning to rush prospective employers' trucks in search of work. Arlington County plans to open a $100,000 pavilion by June on county land for the workers to congregate between 6 a.m. and noon Monday through Saturday. The facility, to include a drinking fountain and portable bathroom, will be located on South 27th Street at Shirlington Road, just a block from the area where workers currently pick up jobs. ``It definitely is seen as a positive change," said Diego Grajales, executive director of the Shirlington Employment...

The Arlington County Board's decision to build a $100,000 pavilion to house day laborers waiting for work may have severely ruptured relations with one of the county's most prominent employers. After more than three hours of public comment and debate, County Board members voted 4-1 to spend up to $140,000 to create the new facility, which would be located not far from Interstate 395 at the intersection of 27th Street South and South Shirlington Road. The new facility is designed to give day laborers, mostly Hispanic immigrants, a place to congregate and meet employers each day. It is located across...