HUNTINGTON BEACH
A job center for day laborers opens Wednesday, but critics prefer the doors remain shut.
Some worry that the center will turn into a city-sponsored tax dodge and a haven for illegal immigrants, while the workers themselves predict bringing them together in one place will create tussles over who gets what kind of work.
The taxpayers will definitely be exploited, said City Councilman Dave Sullivan, the only council member who opposed the project, which was approved in August 1998.
Lt. Luis Ochoa of the city’s Police Department said staffers will check for proper identification such as green cards.
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