Ojai Day Laborer Stop Closed by Anti-Illegal Immigration Activists -Enforce US Immigration Laws Now and Secure the Borders advocates share their views with the Ojai public.
On Saturday March 29 2008, the upscale resort town of Ojai got a big surprise from its citizens and for tourist alike. For many years now, one main street corner has been allowed to become a busy unofficial outlaw day laborer pick-up site for scoflaw local contractors to contract with likely under-the-table non-tax paying day laborers. This active site has grown to be a huge local nuisance and crime area with several Ojai laws being broken apart from the Federal Immigration & Labor Laws and government tax laws. Vagrant "laborers" spend hours loitering, littering, and writing graffiti in the municipal bus shelter and outside workers wandering through the neighboring businesses and home properties. Other crime annoyances include these hired hand's private property trespassing, gambling, weapons use in fights, public drinking & drunkness, public urination and defecation, and even open drug sales and use. Employing these outlaw workers drive down lawful workers wages and destroy ethical market place competition for Ojai US citizens. Outlaw illegal workers steal/buy phony social security card numbers. Outlaw illegal workers commit identity theft and tax fraud on hard working innocent US citizens. It takes citizens years to clear up those identity frauds and tax fraud destroys citizens credit history and bank accounts. This patch of Ojai is on the main highway for tourist, school children and residents to travel past it everyday. This is a crime area public nuisance.
