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  • RunForest
    thank you
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  • acdodd
    This is what I was talking about.
    Valid information so now I can decide for myself whether to shop HD or not.
    Given this information I think Lowes will get my money.
    AC
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  • TooBig
    thanks for the info I won't be shopping there any more.[:D][:D][:D]
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  • Slow_Hand
    My 2-cent explanation here, not an endorsement.

    Part of what Big Orange did was out of necessity. The day laborers here in AZ were swarming all over the parking lots, going up to anyone with a van or pickup, making women customers more than uncomfortable, etc. Don't construe that to mean they were acting criminally because they weren't. But if every day, a couple hundred crowd the lot, hold up traffic, make it difficult for shoppers to get in and get out, etc., the store has to do something.

    Here's where the laws are at their weakest. Trespassing is very hard to prove and if the police arrested the day laborers, each would have to have bi-lingual representation provided them, arraignments, court dates, etc. The sheer numbers make it daunting at best.

    Like any suit-run business, it was cheaper and easier to take the "liberal's low road", write a few checks (tax deductible anyway) and move as many as possible out of their lots and away from their stores. I'm not sure any of us would not have done the same to effect a "quick fix" to a greater problem.

    Face it. It's the contractors and the builders who create the demand for inexpensive day laborers, thereby creating the seemingly endless supply of them which in turn helps to creates additional problems. But those same Americans who help to create this demand are also among Big Orange's bigger and better customers. You get the point.

    FWIW, othere commercial areas in the Phoenix-Scottsdale-Tempe-Mesa area are also feeling the crush of day laborers and have tried to establish a coalition of business owners so as to get the law to move day laborers away from the stores and over to city run centers.

    After 9AM, the flood of contractors and builders is gone and for those who did not get chosen, these sites become nothing more than "corners" to hang out on, disrupting the flow of normal, everyday business.
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  • KEVD18
    if your going to boycott every business that has policies that negatively affect america, youve got a lot of boycotting.

    start with every company that has ever used non american labor

    expand that to every company that outsources anypart of their business. so every company that sells a product that isnt manufacutured here would have to be boycotted.

    lets not forget compainies that are internationally held. this would mean that the profits from their business are leaving the country, not being recycled into the economy.

    it is the choice of every person to shop at any store or do any sort of business with whomever they choose. i respect that. but dont get all hot and bothered by hd's support of day labor if your more that willing to over look much bigger problems.
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  • kyplumber
    quote:Originally posted by KEVD18
    if your going to boycott every business that has policies that negatively affect america, youve got a lot of boycotting.

    start with every company that has ever used non american labor

    expand that to every company that outsources anypart of their business. so every company that sells a product that isnt manufacutured here would have to be boycotted.

    lets not forget compainies that are internationally held. this would mean that the profits from their business are leaving the country, not being recycled into the economy.

    it is the choice of every person to shop at any store or do any sort of business with whomever they choose. i respect that. but dont get all hot and bothered by hd's support of day labor if your more that willing to over look much bigger problems.


    Which is what should happen!
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  • Slow_Hand
    Supply and demand. Diminish the demand for illegal labor by punishing and imprisoning those who hire them AND the supply simply moves elsewhere - another city, state, etc. more and more inward and upward into America.

    It is absolutely imperative for the U.S. to cut off the supply first - a.k.a. "seal the borders" - and THEN eliminate the demand by going after those who hire the illegals left here.

    Little by little, many of the illegals remaining here will either go back on their own or get caught and deported back or get assimilated and disppear into the American fabric. But at the very least, the current endless supply of illegals will have been choked off for the future.

    My 2 cents.
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  • TooBig
    I emailed Home Depot about this issue and told them I would no longer shop at any of their stores. I got a quick response from them and it sounded like our elected officals what a BJ on the subject.I sent bank of America a email and I haven't heard from them. After the email back from Home D I'm very sure I won't be shopping at either place.[:D][8D][:)]
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  • Mercury
    So all of the people in the parking lots for day labor are illegals?

    Just wondering.......


    Merc
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