This is how Houston took care of that.............. LOL
City ends funding for day-labor hall
Site in East End was at the center of 2006 debate about immigration policy
By JAMES PINKERTON and SUSAN CARROLL
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Complete coverage of immigration issues Houston's only city-funded day labor center is set to close at the end of the month after city officials decided not to renew a $100,000 contract to run the hiring hall popular with illegal workers.
The East End Worker Development Center, at 2 N. Sampson, stirred a storm of controversy in spring 2006 after it became embroiled in a City Hall debate about whether it encouraged illegal immigration.
''We learned in late spring there would not be funding available for the center," said Marc Levinson, director of agency development for Neighborhood Centers Inc., the Houston nonprofit human services agency that has operated the facility since 2005. ''It's not that the program wasn't worthwhile — they just decided to put their resources elsewhere."
Frank Michel, spokesman for Mayor Bill White, confirmed that the city did not allocate funding for the center from this year's federal Community Development Block Grant program.
''The City Council determined that," said Michel, adding that there are no plans to explore alternate funding. ''It was debated last year at great length. The upshot of it was that we would not fund it again."
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