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What do you think about this here 'Sanctuary Busters,'?

Some residents of Mountain View are challenging the planned move of a day laborer center to their neighborhood and have enlisted the help of Judicial Watch, a conservative national group that wages legal battles against similar centers around the country where immigrants seek low-wage handyman work. The Washington, D.C.-based non-profit which has a project called "Sanctuary Busters," has sued cities around the country, claiming that day laborer centers violate federal immigration law at tax payer expense, by hiring illegal immigrants. "We're researching the facts in Mountain View," said Christopher J. Farrell, director of research for the group, a non-profit based in Washington, D.C.. "Litigation is certainly one of the options we're considering." Wednesday night, Farrell led a meeting with several dozen residents, "a public education effort," he said, about the work that Judicial Watch has done on illegal immigration enforcement. It has filed lawsuits in Herndon, Virginia and Laguna Beach, arguing that taxpayer money was being used to pay for the operation of day worker centers in those cities. Chris Newman, the legal director of a national group of day laborer centers, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, dismissed the lawsuits as "baseless." "They're meant to generate anti-immigrant sentiments," he said "These maneuvers are designed to gin up controversy and intimidate people." The threat of a lawsuit is the latest setback to the Dayworker Center of Mountain View, a group founded in 1996 to help immigrants find hourly jobs like gardening and temporary construction with employers, many of them homeowners. During the height of the construction boom in the Bay Area, as many as a 100 workers a day found jobs from the center. It relies mostly on private donations, but has received funding from Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. But controversy about the hiring of illegal immigrants, and resident complaints of loitering, traffic and congestion, lowered property values, has dogged the center. It moved from a church location late in 2007 to a downtown building owned by the Trinity United Methodist Church. More @ http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_12158842

Public Comments

1. Close anything that harbors illegal fugitives. That goes for Home Depot.
2. they need to be closed down. the folks operating the day labor needs charges against them for helping illegals find work. they are encouraging illegals to come and work.
3. u again