Washington Post
Maryland -- Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) announced plans yesterday to open the county's third day-laborer center, near the Shady Grove Metro station just south of the Gaithersburg border.
Plans for a county-funded employment center for day laborers, most of whom are immigrants, have been a source of controversy in Gaithersburg for the past year. Protests from neighbors and business owners scuttled several potential locations within city limits, leaving dozens of workers to gather informally on the edge of a residential neighborhood.
Posted by tyne at January 19, 2007