Is this from The Onion?
August 6, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
Is this some kind of joke? Los Angeles isn’t really going to do this - right?
If passed, the ordinance would require new home improvement stores that are 100,000 square feet or larger, or any building or structure where 250,000 square feet or more of warehouse floor area is added, to set aside space for day laborers seeking employment from customers.
The shelters would have to be easily accessible and equipped with drinking water, bathrooms, tables with seating and trash facilities.
Home-improvement stores would also be required to develop a security plan in consultation with the Los Angeles Police Department.
I’m already mad that Lowe’s and Home Depot can’t run off the loiterers. Around here, they’ve staked out the area between the sidewalk and the street that the parish owns so the store can’t run them off, and the police evidently won’t do it because they’re out there, day in and day out. The idea that the government would force private businesses to accommodate and shelter illegal aliens - at their own expense, or rather, the expense of customers who will ultimately pay the cost - is just… amazing.
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