Los Angeles may "require" home improvement stores to have day laborer centers

Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times offers "L.A. adopts day laborer rules for home improvement stores" (link):

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Wednesday requiring certain home improvement stores to develop plans for dealing with day laborers who congregate nearby in search of jobs.

The ordinance mandates that proposed big-box stores obtain conditional-use permits, which could then require them to build day-labor centers with shelter, drinking water, bathrooms and trash cans.

Councilman Bernard C. Parks, who first proposed the ordinance four years ago, said that this was just the first phase and that he planned to address existing home improvement stores next. He said the businesses needed to be held accountable for their role in attracting dayworkers.

Eric Garcetti - as well as day laborers who were in the Council that day - are happy.

Home Depot says they aren't happy, but that's probably only because the city (probably) won't be picking up the tab for building the day laborer centers. The City of Los Angeles is/was directly enabling illegal immigration by leasing a section of a Home Depot's parking lot to run a center. And, Home Depot was paying a lobbyist $10,000 a month to lobby the L.A. City Council on the wider issue.

See also an attempt to claim that opposition to a Home Depot store was racism - run by someone who previously had worked for one of their PR companies. Surely it was just a coincidence.

Immigration2008a · Thu, 08/14/2008 - 11:15 · · Importance: 1

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