Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots
A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.
The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA), an advocacy organization that helps day laborers, called for the removal of these machines from Home Depot’s Cypress Park location, according to the Los Angeles Times
Advocates for day laborers also demanded that Home Depot speak out against ICE raids in store parking lots. Immigration enforcement agents have repeatedly targeted the Cypress Park location, which is located near one of IDEPSCA’s support hubs, the Times reported.
I could comprehend it just fine when someone explained it. I’ve just never heard of this hanging around in parking lot to get work thing before so I was asking what the deal was. What a bubble to live in, not knowing about some Yank thing.
Like fuck off dude, stop assuming everyone is American and knows everything about the US. Rest of the world exists too. And you are saying I live in isolated bubble lol
I never made an assumption of your location.
Day laborers exist in every country, even Finland, the method of hiring them and the popular industries vary from place to place. In the US, day laborers that work construction and landscape usually hang out at stores that sell those things.
This type of work is popular among undocumented people, because it usually pays cash and no one asks many questions. Curiously, the number of undocumented people in the United States is estimated to be almost 150% of the entire population of your tiny little backwater country.
It is very clear that your bubble does not extend beyond Finland… And I would suspect even more likely not to the end of your block.
You just assumed I had to be rich for not knowing in the US people hire random people in the parking lot of some store. Very reasonable, especially if you didn’t assume I was already somehow familiar with this custom.
Yeah I assumed you had no experience with the working human… I was very wrong. You have no understanding outside of Finland. Which btw is 0.20% on the land surface on earth. I’m not sure which is worse.
And how common do you think this hiring people on the hardware store parking lot practise is, globally speaking? Can you name some countries where you know this is a thing, or where you’ve seen people hang around the parking lot, waiting to be hired?
Hardware store specifically? Which is not what your original comment said: parking lot.
Yeah: China. India. From basic web searches those appear to be parking lots and transit stations. They gather in mass to be picked up for day labor. Construction, warehouse work, etc.
BASIC INTERNET SEARCHING
Just admit you don’t know anything outside of Finland.
I mean I’ve only visited 15 countries and worked in 4. What would I know. You’ve what, searched this thing so I assume this is new knowledgw to you too that it happens elsewhere. And here you are shitting on me for not knowing this is a thing. That’s funny.
You visited 15 countries and worked in four yet you didn’t pay attention to anything while you were there outside of your own little bubble. That’s funny. Then when you are presented with the idea of day laborers, it’s something you can’t possibly fucking understand, and you dismiss the wealth of information online, falling back to your experience must be the only experience.
That’s not just funny, that’s hilarious.
I’m sure you know those countries hire people from the parking lots better than someone who lived and worked there, despite not knowing even which countries I’m talking about. I think that says it all, really.