Show me 30 guys of any race, religion or immigration status standing in front of a 7-11, drinking beer at 8am, urinating in public and evading taxes on their income, and I’ll do my best to get them all arrested, too. OH, THAT’S RIGHT—-I wouldn’t HAVE to do that, because the cops wouldn’t hesitate to arrest them if they were black or white. Nobody is raising a political ruckus to protect them.

Krutis—you were successfully making a point about the day laborer center unti you pointed out that at the DLC, we were giving them lunch. Huh. When I was laid off after 9/11 and went to the VEC employment center to look for work, nobody gave ME lunch! My employers and I all paid into the unemployment program over the course of more than 15 years so that I could draw about 1/3 of the salary I had been making each week—not to mention that my father had paid into the program for about 48 years without ever drawing unemployment. And come April 15, I had to pay taxes on my income.

All the “jobs Americans won’t do” folks should consider this: I worked in a McDonalds when I was young, and always thought I would make it a requirement for my children because, under the old training program, a job at McDonalds taught a lot of important business skills that could be used later on. That is no longer the case. I have stopped patronizing McDonalds because they have stopped caring about the customers (I even break down and say “no huevos” because I have an egg allergy, but they don’t care.) and because I have observed male workers sexually harassing the female workers. At the McDonalds close to my officer, virtually all the workers are latino and none of them seem to mind. My daughter would mind. I would mind if the men addressed my daughter the way they address the female workers.

It’s not that I don’t want my daughter to work at McDonalds or that she wouldn’t do it. It’s that I don’t want my daughter to be subjected to leering and inappropriate comments at the tender age of 16, and I don’t want her to learn that a job half done is good enough.

Uncontrolled immigration has brought to this country a general lowering of standards that threatens the fiber of our country. Yes, both legal and illegal immigrants contribute to this dynamic, but it is the ILLEGAL immigration that is uncontrolled, and the LEGAL immigrants, by virtue of doing it right, have demonstrated that they value our country and respect its laws.

You seem to be mostly concerned about the fact that these people are breaking the law by hiring illegal immigrants.

If illegal immigrants became legal through more work visas or whatever process that makes it easier for people to cross the border legally, then what would your feelings be about people hiring day laborers and a large hispanic community in certain counties?

I totally agree with ICE coming by and posing as a contractor and grabbing a truck load of them and checking their status, or even asking their status before they get into the vehicle.

The Coverstone 7-11 has a long history behind it, cutting to the chase the way I understand it is that the police arrested a bunch of the day laborers for loitering and the 7-11 folks didn’t bother to show up for court so the police are not wasting their time. Greg went down there a few months ago, maybe 6 or 7 months ago and was treated rudely and then a PWC cop pulled him over stating that he had a complaint that Greg was harassing people that are only here to work hard and not commit crimes like fraud and ID theft etc, etc. So that Day Laborer Center has a lot of history to it.

People standing on a street corner, waiting for sneaky people to drive by, negotiate a price for an illegal act and driving off together.

The police have set up vice squads to stop prostitutes, why isn’t ICE dedicating two or three officers to driving around picking up illegals at very well known pickup points? It would be low cost enforcement and would scare many illegals off from hanging around waiting to turn a “trick”, so to speak. The effect of knowing the next “employer” could be an ICE agent may be enough to send another few thousand back home.

Sorry, that is a constructive, effective and low-cost method of solving a probem, our governments would never let that happen.

hang lows and silicon, now that is funny…you will not know wtf, I am talking about as I tried to post the address of a blog and now it is gone.

I guess everything is in the EYE of the beholder….IF it gets past the wizard

The fat broads live where the hang lows fear to thread ( I know, I hear a lot of SPINS on that one….LOL )

My question re Stewart was to find out whether he lives in an area with empty houses and jungle yards; in other words, affected by his and his Boards decision. IF he does, it would be interesting to know what he thinks about the situation.

What does it look like where Corey Stewart lives BTW?

It’s apparent you didn’t take your PROZAK today.

Yea, I don’t see this as a plus at all. I am just wondering what happens when school is out and all the kids head for the vacant houses. Sounds like drugs, sex and rock and roll to me.

Well, prior to the vacating in the area we had drugs, sex and salsa. In addition throw in some prostitution, public drunkedness/urination and severe overcrowding.

I’ll take the empty houses with the tall grass over the above, anytime.

Long live the Resolution.

Do I detect a note of panic in your comment, DUDE. I should hope that train left the station…go for it Greg!

AWCheney Have you ever seen red smoke upon your entry? I bet not. That’s the last time I panicked, but you weren’t there to see it. For the last time, I was being sarcastic!

I see the WashPost has picked up on the jungle theme also. Some of the lots are scarey. Worst one I have seen is on King George Drive. It was finally mowed and it looked like a combine needed to be taken in there.

The famous yellow cape code still needs to be mowed. I believe it holds the title now for the worse jungle in Westgate.

Yea, I don’t see this as a plus at all. I am just wondering what happens when school is out and all the kids head for the vacant houses. Sounds like drugs, sex and rock and roll to me.

“Although home sales in the county increased 14% fr January through April compared with the same period last years, foreclosures in the county have gone up 211% in that time. There were 645 foreclosures last month in Prince William, Manassas and Manassas Park, cout records show.”