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Stop City Hall funding day-labor racket drawing ICE to Home Depot

A manufactured crisis plays out daily in the parking lots of LA’s Home Depot stores. Day laborer centers, seven city-contracted hubs often nestled on private commercial property, have become battlegrounds.

And, no surprise, the NGOs now want more of your hard-earned dollars.

Nonprofit organizations like CARECEN demand millions in local taxpayer dollars not to help workers find jobs, but to shield illegal aliens from lawful federal enforcement by ICE.

LA City Hall bears primary responsibility for escalating this needless conflict. Mayor Karen Bass’ administration included these day laborer centers in her preliminary budget at flat funding levels, then meekly responded to advocates’ outrage by promising to “work with the City Council on any potential solutions to support immigrant communities further.”

This is classic Bass equivocation: maintaining the status quo while signaling openness to the very demands that undermine federal enforcement. She knows full well that immigration policy is the exclusive domain of the US government.

Yet she continues to operate and fund these centers on a patchwork of public, state, and private land, many adjacent to Home Depots.

This is not compassionate outreach; it is brazen obstructionism, subsidized by Angelenos. At a time when Bass proposes a $14.9 billion budget that already strains under homelessness, crime, and basic services, groups like CARECEN have the audacity to testify before the City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee, begging for a $2 million boost, from $1 million to $3 million, to install cameras,........

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