Immigrant Rights Groups Protest Day Laborer Law
The American Civil Liberties Union and immigrant rights groups are protesting an Agoura Hills ordinance forbidding day laborers from soliciting work in public places, accusing the city of violating the workers’ constitutional rights of free speech and public assembly.
The groups also alleged that sheriff’s deputies use the ordinance as a pretext for enforcing immigration laws, which the protesters contend exceeds the deputies’ authority. ACLU attorney Robin Toma demanded a repeal of the day laborer ordinance in a letter this week to the Agoura Hills City Council on behalf of a coalition of five groups.
Sheriff’s Lt. Jim Pierson denied that deputies did anything illegal when they questioned laborers gathered at the site of a defunct city hiring center at Kanan and Agoura roads.
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