December 13, 2005
Virginia: Where Laborers Go, Minutemen will follow

Washington Post

Virginia -- The taxpayer-financed day-laborer center is scheduled to open tomorrow in Herndon, and the president of the local chapter of the Minuteman Project said yesterday that his group will be there to continue photographing and investigating employers.

The Herndon Minuteman group already has been conducting surveillance at the town's informal labor gathering spot outside a 7-Eleven. Yesterday, George Taplin, president of the chapter, said his group had turned over the evidence gathered so far to several local and state agencies as well as the Internal Revenue Service. The group has focused its efforts on the companies that hire day laborers and are allegedly operating without the proper licenses.

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Posted by Richard at December 13, 2005
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