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Maryland -- Gaithersburg will create an advisory group to suggest solutions for the several dozen Latino men who gather every morning in a parking lot next to Grace United Methodist Church to wait for work.
The move comes after plans for a taxpayer-backed center for day laborers abruptly collapsed two weeks ago when the county government said the city’s support for a center was waning and city leaders admitted they had not allowed enough public input on the nearly year-old plan.
Neighbors have complained the workers are a threat.
At a Monday night meeting, the City Council and Mayor Sidney A. Katz debated the structure of a task force, its membership and whether the city is flaunting federal immigration laws, since some of the workers who would use the center are in the country illegally.
Posted by Richard at October 19, 2005