Providing shelter... to illegality and human misery

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….said the businesses needed to be held accountable for their role in attracting dayworkers.

This logic is akin to holding the neighborhood pub accountable for our drunkeness and making them pay for our cab ride home. And yes, we will have another one, thank you very much.

Holding a business responsible for operating a successful business that generates an unwanted collateral circumstance is lost on us.

But you know, the truly sickening thing about this ordinance is that for its supporters, well, maybe not the daffy, starry-eyed, LaRaza-type deck plate supporters but certainly the fools on the L.A. City Council that voted for this travesty, this has absolutely nothing to do with the safety and well-being of these supposed day-laborers. Rather, what this is all about is sticking it to the evil, blighted “big-box” retailers and a further normalizing and socializing of the status of illegal immigrants.

But Abel Valenzuela, a UCLA professor who has conducted extensive research on day laborers and supports the ordinance, said the city can expect to see even more such workers as the economy continues to falter. "This isn't an immigration issue," he said. "This is a labor market issue."

Abe, you lie. In your world-view of things, this is all about (illegal) immigration. But we could’ve deduced what your “study” concluded without fleecing the tax payer at your tenured position at one of our public UCs. It doesn’t take a leap of faith to intuitively figure-out that whatever the state of the economy, if you build a defacto homeless shelter, you will attract the homeless set as well as the day laborers, in droves.

We’re sure the customers of these stores will be delighted to see this shelter set-up in the parking lot because nothing says “Shop here” like a hobo camp.

The very blight of which latte’ libs, pro-illegal immigrant and the whole spectrum of “social justice” types accuse outfits like Home Depot and WalMart, aid and abet this problem by supporting this ordinance. But what do they care? They aren’t shopping there and they sure as hell don't care about these “day laborers”, either. Mere pawns.

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H/T: Mongo