Home Depot, Forced to Provide Day Labor Facilities in Some Cities, Seeks Federal Shield Law?
The Senate could respond this week by attaching language to the immigration bill that would prohibit city councils from requiring home improvement stores to pay for shelters or other services to help maintain orderly day labor sites.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is designed to curtail a practice in the California communities of Mountain View and Burbank, where city councils recently have forced Home Depot to build facilities for day laborers onsite or elsewhere, hire security staff and offer bathrooms in order to get the permits necessary for its operations.
Local governments in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities, including in Illinois and Washington, D.C., have imposed or are considering similar measures.
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I hope this passes. Corporations should not be forced against their will to build these structures, especially for ILLEGAL aliens.
State of Georgia should be considered KKK haven!
I thought you guys hated big corporations...but not when you can get some cheap 2x4s to make a nice wooden cross to burn later that night
lmao
Home Depot should be shut down.
Home Depot shouldn't of hired the people to begin with.
If Home Depot really wanted to, they could have those day laborers arrested for trespassing, and loitering. If they are illegals, NO store has to offer them protection from the law. And as far as the city council members go - they are breaking federal law by making such demands, and requirements of any business. They cannot force businesses to provide anything for illegals, or homeless bums for that matter. And the people of those cities can have their city council members recalled, and replaced.
you see that's an example of us doing things for the illegals why do we bust our asses to please them and make them comfortable it dont make sence we keep doing for them we already have all these Spanish products in our stores the signs ,the commercials wake up America.
Snicker.
The federal government has no jurisdiction over local landuse planning.
Businesses need to mitigate their impact sufficiently to get significant projects approved. If they chased the workers off so they didn't create an 'impact' that would be one thing. But they have to provide adequate parking, if they will ruin traffic flows they may need to put in a light, and if they create a body of people loitering without sanitary facilities in a way that impacts the desirability of other businesses in the area, they can be asked to address that. They provide a lot of sales tax for communities. They have a lot of bargaining power. For the federal government to weigh in is ludicrous.
if home depot customers didn't give day laborers jobs in the parking lot then they wouldn't be there looking for jobs. so i guess home depot should have issues with its customers that hire day laborers or put up shop where the day laborers can buy a drink and pee.
why is everyone scapegoating the day laborers and missing the fact that people hiring people illegally is illegal?
its simple. nobody is hanging out in my front yard because i am not hiring day laborers.
if home depots ceo gets like a hundred forty million bucks a year he might install something really enlightened like a daycare facility fer their folks with papooses,
Home Depot should NOT hire or encourage hiring of illegal aliens period. If they didn't attract them, they wouldn't have the problem.
If the cities would enforce the laws, they wouldn't have as big an illegal problem either.
This is a circular situation.
Deport and solve the situation.
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