DAY LABORERS: PRIOR ACTIONS (series part-IV)....

The City of Concord and the Concord Police Department took some steps to mitigate the Day Laborer problem; however, these actions have not been successful in eliminating the problems associated with the loitering Day Laborers.

Prior actions taken included:

1. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.), an Agency of The Department of Homeland Security for several years conducted “enforcement actions” geared at identifying and detaining undocumented aliens who are among the groups of Day Laborers. While these actions have been successful in detaining illegal aliens, they have had little long lasting impact on the Day Laborer problem. Additionally, these enforcement actions by I.C.E. have generated a significant amount of negative publicity. I.C.E. has stopped using these “enforcement actions” as a means to deal with Day Laborers. At this juncture I.C.E. only performs sweeps of Criminal-Aliens (aliens that have an outstanding criminal warrant).

( ... to be continued ...)