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Re: Day laborers demand jobs center

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From: Dave
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 11:21
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"Former organ donor" <organsforAmericans@America.us> wrote in message news:<NysNa.39172$Xm3.8123@sccrnsc02>...
> "johnny" <johnny@.> wrote in message news:3F062A1B.30402@....
> > Having already turned their backs on the city's July 1 deadline to move,
> > day laborers said Thursday they are staying put at a vacant lot in
> > Albany Park and demanded that a permanent center be built for them to
> > gather and solicit work.
> >
> > "I need the place," said Jose Luis, a 52-year-old man who withheld his
> > last name. If he and other workers lose the space, he said he would be
> > forced to "go to the streets, go to the corners. And maybe run from the
> > police."
> >
> 
> Jesus! it is a sad day when criminals are too damn lazy or too damn old to
> run from the police!
> 
> >
> > Jessica Aranda of the Latino Union of Chicago, an advocacy group that
> > has taken on the workers' cause, said the hope is to have a permanent
> > site modeled after centers in Los Angeles and New York, where laborers
> > would not only get work on a lottery basis, but also learn English and
> > get educated on labor rights.
> 
> Well maybe the former INS could build these centers, give the illegals jobs
> like guarding the border, and teaching them that even though they are here
> illegally they somehow have the right to gripe about working conditions.

Why is the INS not raiding these gathering places? 

Dave
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From: Dahlke66@hotmail.com (Dave)
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Subject: Re: Day laborers demand jobs center
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