They wait on the city’s streetcorners, often shivering in the cold, hoping someone will drive by and offer them a job. Soon, they will be able to come indoors.
Beginning next month, day laborers will be eligible for job training and social service programs in three Queens neighborhoods under a new $1.2 million initiative paid for with federal stimulus dollars.
But advocates say they won’t be satisfied with anything less than full-fledged immigration centers.
“The city is doing a great job trying to create these kinds of services for our community,” said Ligia Guallpa of the Latin American Workers Project, a Jackson Heights-based nonprofit. But, she added, “the city needs to consider creating real, sustainable job centers.”
Sure! Let’s create all kinds of benefits for people here illegally!
Look… I understand it’s a touchy situation and it’s hard to figure out how to deal with it, but let’s be honest. If put to a vote, I don’t know a single American who thinks that the tax money they ponied up, which has already been abused to levels we can’t even comprehend in the real (ie: non governmental) world should be spent to further benefit illegal aliens who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
It’s one thing to allow them to have driver’s licenses and medical care if they’re sick, but to actively train them for free with taxpayer money? Sorry; that I can’t go for.
