Mansoor in the past has said he supported shuttering the city-subsidized labor center at 17th Street and Placentia Avenue, saying it cost the city $100,000 a year to run, and that he didn’t think city government should be in the business of providing jobs, especially if many of the laborers are here illegally.
“Let the private sector deal with that, and let the jobs go to those who are here legally,” Mansoor said Tuesday.
But to many day laborers, the right to look for work is a “human right,” something they wrote on the placards they carried. Other signs read, “We are workers, not criminals” or “Stop police harassment.”
