Cave Creek church closes day-labor center due to new laws

Carolyn Hileman* | January 7, 2008

Hit by changes in town laws aimed at ousting undocumented immigrants and the advent this week of Arizona’s new employer-sanctions law, a Cave Creek church has closed its day-labor center. Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church started its center more than seven years ago to give its mostly undocumented laborers a safe place to hook up with employers and get social services. “A lot of the guys just got scared,” said volunteer Dan Dooley, a spokesman for the church at 6502 E. Cave Creek Road. “It ran a lot of them underground.” Operations at the day-labor center ended Tuesday, forcing the more than 40 migrant workers who gathered there to seek work elsewhere, including in other states and back in Latin America, center volunteers said.

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