Police targeting day laborers

News Type: none — Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2006 3:07 PM EST

Article Source: Tucson Citizen

politics, immigration, illegal-immigration, tucson, day-laborer

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Local residents applaud the action. Critics call it 'a poor use of resources.'

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Jason Coleman

This story is worth reading for the statistics along: (selective, from the article)

117,600 day laborers are in the United States
75 percent are in the United States illegally.
Median wage is $10 an hour.
49 percent of employers are homeowners or renters.
43 percent of employers are contractors.

To hear the news (in my state of Virginia, and nationwide) you'd think the number was ten times that. That wage is certainly more than I would have thought, and I suspect that none of it goes to income tax. Having some sort of illegal ID (such as that proposed by the president last year) would allow for better tracking and wage garnishing.

I'm sure when the cost of people's homes and landscaping starts climbing, you'll hear less complaints about illegals. I do agree that if someone is being a public nuisance that they should be ticketed or fined on the spot A day laborer site would be a great thing to help this situation provided they workers could be assured that anti-immigration groups left them alone. One such site was proposed by a local government in Northern Virginia recently but was unfortunately stopped by national anti-immigration activists.

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#1 - Tue Feb 7, 2006 4:02 PM EST

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CMNews

One of us is miss reading this, I read the line of :

"In many parts of the country, day laborers are relatively new.

A recently released study of day laborers published by the University of California put their numbers at around 117,600."

to mean that there are 117,600 in California

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#2 - Tue Feb 7, 2006 5:46 PM EST

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CMNews

it was me that read it wrong, ignore my last post

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#3 - Tue Feb 7, 2006 5:55 PM EST

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Jason Coleman

I thought the exact same thing at first. It just made too much sense, given my assumption that there were probably many times that in the U.S.

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#4 - Tue Feb 7, 2006 11:32 PM EST

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