Cutler Bay (Miami) Illegal Alien Hiring Hall

WeCount announced that the center opened for operations on Monday, March 31, 2008.

As of November 1, 2013 the WeCount Illegal Alien Hiring Hall is still open.  See we-count.org.

You are requested to bombard the Miami-Dade Commissioners with emails and phone calls to let them know that this will not be tolerated. Call, write, e-mail, fax, or visit:

http://www.miamidade.gov/commiss/

http://beautifulcity.us/content/view/152/16/:

Thanks to commissioner Dennis C. Moss, Miami Dade County has allocated $200,000 to build a day laborer employment center. The facility will provide day laborers with a photo identification and register them in a database depending on the kind of work they do. Potential employers will also register and officials assure that immigration status will never be asked.

http://www.we-count.org/EmploymentOpportunities.html: (Expired Link)

WeCount! is seeking a Center Director for a new worker center for day laborers in the Cutler Bay area. 

 

The Center Director will be in charge of overseeing the transition of workers from the street to the center; ensuring a healthy, friendly and professional environment is established in the center; ensuring that the process of contractor and worker registration is efficient; supervising two site coordinators; coordinating service provision and leadership development; developing and implementing a marketing plan; developing positive relationships with the community; working closely with the Workers' Committee, and working with the Executive Director to ensure fulfillment of contract requirements, accounting procedures and accountability in the program.

http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/256310.html (expired link):

The center is scheduled to open Oct. 22, depending on how quickly renovations can be finished, said Jonathan Fried, executive director of We Count!

 

We Count! received a $200,000 allocation, championed by Miami-Dade Commissioner Dennis Moss, from the county's 2006 community-based organization budget to create the center.

http://afsc.org/miami/history.htm: (Expired link)

The County approved $200,000 to help finance a Day Labor Center in the Cutler Bay area.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2007/oct/another-publicly-funded-day-laborer-center

Another Publicly Funded Day Laborer Center

Tue, 10/02/2007 - 12:08

Officials in one South Florida county have come up with a costly taxpayer-funded solution to accommodate illegal immigrant day laborers who in the past have been arrested for soliciting and loitering.

Thanks to a veteran commissioner (Dennis C. Moss), Miami Dade County has allocated $200,000 to build a day laborer employment center where illegal immigrants can gather to find work rather than litter the streets as they have been for years.

Scheduled to open in a few weeks, the 2,000-square foot center is conveniently located near a major home improvement store in an area called Homestead. The facility will provide day laborers with a photo identification and register them in a database depending on the kind of work they do. Potential employers will also register and officials assure that immigration status will never be asked.

Similar taxpayer-funded day laborer centers have opened around the country and Judicial Watch has legally fought them since federal and state laws prohibit committing public funds and resources to facilitate the illegal employment of undocumented aliens.

Judicial Watch's efforts forced Herndon Virginia to shut down its publicly funded day laborer center for illegal aliens just last month. Judicial Watch is currently investigating similar facilities in the Southern California cities of Thousand Oaks and Laguna Beach as well as Seattle Washington.