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Why not? It is really no different than having drug dealers set up shop on your corner and sharing footage with police. You have people who are likely committi

Why not? It is really no different than having drug dealers set up shop on your corner and sharing footage with police. You have people who are likely committing criminal activity (multiple crimes in the day laborer case) and are sharing footage with the relevant authorities. The politicization of enforcement doesn’t change that as a business owner I would not want to own the location people facilitate illegal transactions.

aftbit 10mo ago
I always thought having day laborers chilling in Home Depot parking lots was a net positive thing for the store and a bit of an untapped potential. Companies pay a lot of money to insert themselves in the hiring stream, and here is Home Depot as the defacto meeting point for a substantial amount of economic activity. Surely a more intelligent and less frightened company could make something positive out of this. But that's what you get with a fear-based political leadership. ICE targets day laborers not because of the horrible damage they do to the US economy, but because they have been selected as the scapegoats du jour.
- pandaman 10mo ago
  How can an intelligent company make money from illegal activity in your opinion? Day laborers hang in the parking lot because they can't work legally, if they could then they could use HD's contractor portal and bid on jobs there.
lieability 10mo ago
> no different In your world view immigrants working jobs you find beneath you is the same as someone selling drugs? > likely committing criminal activity You understand that exploiting day laborers to circumvent labor laws puts the, mostly civil though vanishingly rare criminal, liability on the employer rather than the employee, right? We use laws rather than your own personal hatred of immigrants to define criminality.
- nostrebored 10mo ago
  I’ve done landscaping, home repair, fence construction, outdoor painting. My family still actively does. I don’t find them beneath me. Working under the table without work authorization is actually spectacularly illegal as an employer and employee. Tax evasion is also spectacularly illegal as an individual. What are you talking about?
  - lieability 10mo ago
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    - nostrebored 10mo ago
      You seem to not be reading anything I’m saying. I have family that works for legally operated blue collar businesses. The difference is engaging in criminal activity. Your arguments are spectacularly lazy so I’ll ask you to show me where people not authorized to work in the country have no legal liability if they choose to work in the country. I don’t really know what’s ruffled your feathers so much here, but this isn’t really how HN operates. It seems like you got a bit flustered when the “you’re a bad rich person” argument didn’t work, and now you’re just flailing wildly.
      - lieability 10mo ago
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        nostrebored 10mo ago
        You won’t answer the question because you can’t. Your links are irrelevant which is why your post is dead.
        lieability 10mo ago
        Unsure what question you are refering to. Thanks for letting me know it was [dead]. Killing a comment that links to dot gov sources about undocumnteds' being protected, rather than prosecuted, by labor law and showing immigrants pay taxes is fascinating indeed. https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-53.html https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-53.html "The Labor Commissioner is reminding all workers that California’s labor laws protect every worker in the state, regardless of immigration status." https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD003.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG... "A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund."

aftbit 10mo ago

I always thought having day laborers chilling in Home Depot parking lots was a net positive thing for the store and a bit of an untapped potential. Companies pay a lot of money to insert themselves in the hiring stream, and here is Home Depot as the defacto meeting point for a substantial amount of economic activity. Surely a more intelligent and less frightened company could make something positive out of this. But that's what you get with a fear-based political leadership. ICE targets day laborers not because of the horrible damage they do to the US economy, but because they have been selected as the scapegoats du jour.

pandaman 10mo ago
How can an intelligent company make money from illegal activity in your opinion? Day laborers hang in the parking lot because they can't work legally, if they could then they could use HD's contractor portal and bid on jobs there.

lieability 10mo ago

> no different In your world view immigrants working jobs you find beneath you is the same as someone selling drugs? > likely committing criminal activity You understand that exploiting day laborers to circumvent labor laws puts the, mostly civil though vanishingly rare criminal, liability on the employer rather than the employee, right? We use laws rather than your own personal hatred of immigrants to define criminality.

nostrebored 10mo ago
I’ve done landscaping, home repair, fence construction, outdoor painting. My family still actively does. I don’t find them beneath me. Working under the table without work authorization is actually spectacularly illegal as an employer and employee. Tax evasion is also spectacularly illegal as an individual. What are you talking about?
- lieability 10mo ago
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  - nostrebored 10mo ago
    You seem to not be reading anything I’m saying. I have family that works for legally operated blue collar businesses. The difference is engaging in criminal activity. Your arguments are spectacularly lazy so I’ll ask you to show me where people not authorized to work in the country have no legal liability if they choose to work in the country. I don’t really know what’s ruffled your feathers so much here, but this isn’t really how HN operates. It seems like you got a bit flustered when the “you’re a bad rich person” argument didn’t work, and now you’re just flailing wildly.
    - lieability 10mo ago
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      - nostrebored 10mo ago
        You won’t answer the question because you can’t. Your links are irrelevant which is why your post is dead.
        lieability 10mo ago
        Unsure what question you are refering to. Thanks for letting me know it was [dead]. Killing a comment that links to dot gov sources about undocumnteds' being protected, rather than prosecuted, by labor law and showing immigrants pay taxes is fascinating indeed. https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-53.html https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-53.html "The Labor Commissioner is reminding all workers that California’s labor laws protect every worker in the state, regardless of immigration status." https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD003.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG... "A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund."