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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:29:35 GMT, "Lets Roll"
<letsroll@meet-me-in-hell.com> wrote:

>http://www.unitedpatriotsofamerica.com/Home/Article/Params/objects/1957/default.aspx
>Immigrants seeking jobs at city site are ticketed by police
>Friday, February 24, 2006
>
>By SAMANTHA HENRY
>HERALD NEWS
>
>
>PASSAIC
>Day laborers who gather near The Home Depot on Dayton Avenue said undercover 
>police have been on a ticketing blitz, cracking down hard in the past 
>several weeks -- and they called on Mayor Samuel Rivera to find a solution.
>
>"This is a really serious problem, we need a place where we can be, and 
>where people can see us to pick us up for work," Diego Rios, a day laborer 
>from Peru, said in Spanish Thursday. "We beg the mayor, in the name of us 
>all, to come here and solve this problem. It's a city problem, but he only 
>sends the police to deal with it, and they just come every day to harass us 
>and mistreat us."
>
>*****Ummm.. yes, law breakers would tend to view enforcement of laws as 
>harassment and mistreatment, wouldn't they?  "Damn, those officers stalked 
>me at the bank and mistreated me by putting me in handcuffs when I tried to 
>rob it."
>
>Workers said the police are violating the terms of an agreement signed by 
>Rivera in September 2004 which allowed them to solicit work in the area.
>A spokesman for the mayor, who acknowledged undercover officers had issued 
>tickets recently, countered that the workers themselves have not been 
>respecting the agreement, which includes provisions on no littering, no 
>public urination and no disturbing of parents escorting children to local 
>schools.
>*****Illegal aliens don't respect national borders or federal law and local 
>officials actually expect them to respect casual agreements?  What a bunch 
>of bone heads.
>
>Both sides said they are willing to sit down and talk it out. Both sides 
>also agreed the situation is getting out of hand.
>
>Day worker Pedro Martinez said he was given a ticket for $258 on charges of 
>loitering and blocking public access. He said he was one of at least 20 
>workers who had received a fine within the past two weeks.
>*****And just how are the local officials planning on collecting the fines 
>when the illegal aliens ticketed have provided fake ID???  Kind of like the 
>catch and release policy along the border, where illegal aliens never appear 
>for their court dates?
>
>"They told me the second ticket will be $500, and the third time, you'll be 
>arrested," Martinez said in Spanish. "The mayor said we bother women, but we 
>do not. They've pushed us all the way to the intersection (of Dayton and 
>Route 21) now; we could get killed standing there. We as day laborers have 
>rights."
>*****No, Martinez, you have no inherent rights to violate laws.
>
>
>Martinez said he was caught in a Catch-22: ordered not to work under threat 
>of getting another ticket, but unable to pay the ticket unless he worked.
>*****Follow the advice of the Mexican consulate in Dallas:  Run for the 
>border before you go to jail.
>
>Police department spokesman Detective Andrew White did not return a phone 
>call for comment on the ticketing crackdown.
>Keith Furlong, a spokesman for Rivera, said the mayor was aware the 
>situation was escalating.
>
>"He's very sensitive to this issue," Furlong said. "It's a big concern in 
>the city, it's a very diverse city, and the day laborers are part of the 
>culture in Passaic, but when he gets complaints of bad language or harassing 
>ladies, he has to take action."
>*****Since when are illegal aliens hanging out on street corners soliciting 
>illegal employment and badgering women and children part of any American 
>city culture???
>
>Day laborers said the recent ticketing blitz -- and undercover detectives 
>and uniformed police officers corralling them further down Dayton Avenue in 
>Msgr. Romanak Plaza, which is enclosed by a high fence in a zone where cars 
>are not permitted to pull over -- was making it difficult to get work.
>*****Deal with it.  Times are hard.
>
>Furlong said in addition to letting them wait in the plaza, Rivera had given 
>the day workers an office on President Street to operate out of.
>He said the workers had rejected the office, saying it was too far from 
>where contractors solicit day laborers.
>*****Stomping their little feet and shaking their little fists, mojados will 
>not be satisfied until they are in complete control of the US?
>
>Furlong added that the mayor was frustrated by lack of a clear leader among 
>the day laborers, even as their ranks continued to grow.
>"He's open to meeting with them and figuring things out," Furlong said. "But 
>the current situation doesn't appear to be working."
>*****Things will never "work" as long as the mayor tries to accomodate law 
>breakers.  That's kind of what the rule of law is all about.
>
>Day laborers countered that they've been ticketed for no reason other than 
>for looking to earn a day's pay to feed their families.
>"We are not doing this for fun; this is the hellish reality we go through 
>every day," said Fabian, a 26-year-old from Mexico, who asked that his last 
>name not be printed for fear of retribution from the police.
>*****And fear of deportation for being an illegal alien?
>
>"We deal with racism. With exploitation. We just want to go to work and do a 
>job and get paid, not get discriminated against," he said.
>*****Plenty of jobs are available in Mexico, where you won't be subjected to 
>such harsh things as laws, Fabian.
>
>In a solicited statement on day laborers from The Home Depot, spokesman 
>Yancey Casey wrote by e-mail: "The Home Depot maintains a policy of 
>non-solicitation at its stores by individuals and organizations not 
>affiliated with our company.
>******"If we ain't making a buck off of it, we don't have shelf space for 
>it."  Sounds like if the illegal aliens would offer a percentage of their 
>wages to Home Depot as mordida, they would have access to the facilities.
>
>In the interest of safety and convenience, our policy prohibits people from 
>loitering or otherwise creating or causing safety risks to our associates 
>and customers."
>
>Daryn Martin, the president of the New Jersey chapter of the Association of 
>Community Organizations for Reform Now, who negotiated the original 
>agreement with the city on behalf of the day laborers, said he had received 
>complaints from workers in recent weeks and that he was hoping to arrange a 
>meeting with the mayor to work out a solution.
>*****Normal people hire a lawyer when they have a beef with the government. 

If we had a government worth a crap these illegals would be herded to
boxcars and shipped home. The penalty for illegally re-entering the
USA, death.

Will

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