Arizona legislators move to cut off funding to day laborer centers
Posted Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 5:43 pm
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Eleven Republican state lawmakers want to ban Arizona cities and counties from spending tax money on undocumented immigrants who line the streets waiting for jobs.
The legislators say day-labor centers are a failure and encourage illegal immigration. Rep. Colette Rosati, a Scottsdale Republican and main sponsor of House Bill 2592, said Arizonans are clamoring to curb illegal immigration, not to encourage it...