I just drove past my local Home Depot

[akarunway 1]

30 Mexicans standing in a semi huddle out front. Gauaran FUCKING T not a one had a green card. Every time I talk to a cop they want my fuckin ID. WTF. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know they are illegal. Pisses me off. ARRGHHh

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[JohnRich 4]

I drive by two sites like that every day. Scores of Mexicans standing around. Don't dare pull in and stop, or they'll surround your vehicle like rats, looking for day labor work.

Houston:
1) Home Depot at Beltway 8 and Bellaire.
2) Long Point one block east of Gessner.

I don't understand why Home Depot allows this on their property.

And I don't understand why Immigration doesn't raid the darn places.

I guess they're too busy searching people's shoes at airports...

[normiss 622]

one would think that ICE would simply "hire day laborers" by the truck load....

or is that too simplistic????

[AdamLanes 1]

What is your problem? Did you talk to any of them? Doesn't sound like it. Why don't you mind your own business! How do you even know they are Mexican? Do all hispanics look alike to you?

[billvon 2,400]

>Don't dare pull in and stop, or they'll surround your vehicle like
>rats, looking for day labor work.

I go to a Home Depot like that all the time. That's never happened to me.

[Casurf1978 0]

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I drive by two sites like that every day. Scores of Mexicans standing around. Don't dare pull in and stop, or they'll surround your vehicle like rats, looking for day labor work.

This has never happened to me. Don't get all pissed off at the illegals, what about the people that hire them. It's simple supply and demand. There is demand for cheap labor and the illegals supply it.

[JohnRich 4]

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>Don't dare pull in and stop, or they'll surround your vehicle like
>rats, looking for day labor work.

I go to a Home Depot like that all the time. That's never happened to me.

Oh well, that couldn't possible be true then. I guess I just imagined seeing that dozens of times here in Houston. Never mind.

[billvon 2,400]

>Oh well, that couldn't possible be true then.

I just said it never happened to me. And apparently it hasn't happened to several other posters in similar situations.

[akarunway 1]

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>Oh well, that couldn't possible be true then.

I just said it never happened to me. And apparently it hasn't happened to several other posters in similar situations.

Guess you don't go to Home Depot much. This in So. Cal. Moreno Valley. The fuckers , as John said will surround your truck and try to start jumping in the back. You really need to get out there and see the truth.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[nathaniel 0]

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I don't understand why Home Depot allows this on their property.

Other mysteries about Home Depot:
* why don't they check your zoning permits
* why don't they ask to see your electrical / plumbing / etc licensing

My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

[billvon 2,400]

>Guess you don't go to Home Depot much.

Go there all the time. The one closest to the drop zone (Chula Vista) has such a crowd. They don't seem to bother anyone. People who want to hire them drive up to them.

>You really need to get out there and see the truth.

You really need to stop seeing people you don't know as "fuckers."

[TheBachelor 4]

I see that here in Southern California. The OUTRAGEOUS thing lately is some cities in California are REQUIRING Home Depot to build "Day Laborer Centers" when they build new stores.

There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years...

[billvon 2,400]

> The OUTRAGEOUS thing lately is some cities in California are REQUIRING
> Home Depot to build "Day Laborer Centers" when they build new stores.

I think that's a great idea! Provide some shade, a sign-in area where you can sign up for a given job (or see what tradesmen are there) and an INS officer.

[livendive 8]

Illegals irk me too, but how come there's never a similar crowd of white welfare recipients willing to do such work?

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[airtwardo 6]

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Illegals irk me too, but how come there's never a similar crowd of white welfare recipients willing to do such work?

Blues,
Dave

They're all at the DMV renewing their licenses!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[kallend 1,626]

Doesn't happen at either of my local HDs in the Chicago 'burbs.

...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[PLFXpert 0]

I'm curious to know why it pisses you off--I'm not agreeing or disagreeing at this point, but without the specific "why" I have a hard time responding.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[masterrig 1]

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Illegals irk me too, but how come there's never a similar crowd of white welfare recipients willing to do such work?

Blues,
Dave

Why should they? They get a 'regular paycheck' to do nothing, from welfare. At leastwise, illegals send roughly 28-billion U.S. dollars annually back to Mexico.


Chuck

[masterrig 1]

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30 Mexicans standing in a semi huddle out front. Gauaran FUCKING T not a one had a green card. Every time I talk to a cop they want my fuckin ID. WTF. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know they are illegal. Pisses me off. ARRGHHh

You need to get others in your area, as well as yourself, to bombard the Border Patrol with telephone complaints until they do something about it.


Chuck

[cloudseeker2001 0]

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I don't understand why Home Depot allows this on their property.

Other mysteries about Home Depot:
* why don't they check your zoning permits
* why don't they ask to see your electrical / plumbing / etc licensing

Houston has no zoning. That is why housing is cheaper here than other cities. And why would HD care about trades licenses?

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

[cloudseeker2001 0]

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30 Mexicans standing in a semi huddle out front. Gauaran FUCKING T not a one had a green card. Every time I talk to a cop they want my fuckin ID. WTF. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know they are illegal. Pisses me off. ARRGHHh

I do not know about other cities, but in Houston, an HPD cop cannot legally ask a person if they are illegal.....yea, really odd!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

[cloudseeker2001 0]

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I drive by two sites like that every day. Scores of Mexicans standing around. Don't dare pull in and stop, or they'll surround your vehicle like rats, looking for day labor work.

Houston:
1) Home Depot at Beltway 8 and Bellaire.
2) Long Point one block east of Gessner.

I don't understand why Home Depot allows this on their property.

And I don't understand why Immigration doesn't raid the darn places.

I guess they're too busy searching people's shoes at airports...

Twice I have seen raids at Westpark and 59! And you should see the rats run like hell!!!!!!!!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

[ltdiver 3]

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>Don't dare pull in and stop, or they'll surround your vehicle like
>rats, looking for day labor work.

I go to a Home Depot like that all the time. That's never happened to me.

Kind of hard to jump on the back of your bike, Bill!

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[CanuckInUSA 0]

Why don't you guys just treat these Mexicans like gophers?

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[ltdiver 3]

It's been a consern across the nation for quite some time.

This Article was written for the NY Times back in 2005[/url]

Van Nuys, CA's answer to it

June 2007. Home Depot's battle with the Feds.

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon