A new day labor site causes concern within city
The day Laborers waiting to be picked up for various odd jobs outside of The Home Depot on Mountain Ave. may not be able to do so for much longer.
The small group of day laborers have drawn the attention of activist groups, local residents and now the Upland Mayor and City Council.
Raymond Herrera, an activist with the Minuteman Project based in Laguna Hills, along with fellow activist and Upland resident Robin Hvidston, approached the city council during the Jan. 12 city council meeting about the issue.
"They don't have employment with workman's comp, they get injured and end up at San Antonio Community Hospital with work related injuries," Herrera said.
"When you see day labor sites come you start to see more arriving. Then all of a sudden your city is taken over by illegal aliens - Mexican Nationalists from Mexico and they demand welfare, demand free education and demand a good paying job and all the time being very vile and contentious to the American people over all."
Herrera said many of the day laborers have used vulgar language and gestures toward him.
There is also a concern over trash and alcoholic beverage bottles that are left behind at these type of sites.
The intersection of Grove Avenue and Arrow on the border of Upland and Rancho Cucamonga has been a popular place for day laborers over the last few years.
"I have taken photos there (Grove Ave.) and have a document of photos of liter, just endless bottles of empty liquor, beer, hard liquor," Hvidston said. "I even once found bottles stashed in the bushes filled with rocks. It looked like someone put them there to use as a future weapon. There's food, trash, containers - just voluminous trash and litter from the daily standing on the sidewalk."
It's the possibility of having a second site within Upland city limits that Hvidston is very worried about.
"We've got new homes in our city that don't seem to be selling," she said. "If we're a town with two day labor sites, the home buyer can go down the road and buy a comparable house in a town that doesn't have day labor sites."
Mayor John Pomierski said he and the Upland City Council will discuss the issue and residents may seen an item on a city council meeting agenda in the future.
"We're very well aware of what's going on over there (Grove Ave. and Arrow) and when the situation arises we do what we have to do," Pomierski said. "But in the middle of our city at a Home Depot? I'm not satisfied that that's going to take place there."
The small group of day laborers have drawn the attention of activist groups, local residents and now the Upland Mayor and City Council.
Raymond Herrera, an activist with the Minuteman Project based in Laguna Hills, along with fellow activist and Upland resident Robin Hvidston, approached the city council during the Jan. 12 city council meeting about the issue.
"They don't have employment with workman's comp, they get injured and end up at San Antonio Community Hospital with work related injuries," Herrera said.
"When you see day labor sites come you start to see more arriving. Then all of a sudden your city is taken over by illegal aliens - Mexican Nationalists from Mexico and they demand welfare, demand free education and demand a good paying job and all the time being very vile and contentious to the American people over all."
Herrera said many of the day laborers have used vulgar language and gestures toward him.
There is also a concern over trash and alcoholic beverage bottles that are left behind at these type of sites.
The intersection of Grove Avenue and Arrow on the border of Upland and Rancho Cucamonga has been a popular place for day laborers over the last few years.
"I have taken photos there (Grove Ave.) and have a document of photos of liter, just endless bottles of empty liquor, beer, hard liquor," Hvidston said. "I even once found bottles stashed in the bushes filled with rocks. It looked like someone put them there to use as a future weapon. There's food, trash, containers - just voluminous trash and litter from the daily standing on the sidewalk."
It's the possibility of having a second site within Upland city limits that Hvidston is very worried about.
"We've got new homes in our city that don't seem to be selling," she said. "If we're a town with two day labor sites, the home buyer can go down the road and buy a comparable house in a town that doesn't have day labor sites."
Mayor John Pomierski said he and the Upland City Council will discuss the issue and residents may seen an item on a city council meeting agenda in the future.
"We're very well aware of what's going on over there (Grove Ave. and Arrow) and when the situation arises we do what we have to do," Pomierski said. "But in the middle of our city at a Home Depot? I'm not satisfied that that's going to take place there."
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