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From the New York Times
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Day Laborers File Lawsuit Over Closing of Hiring Site

WHITE PLAINS, April 27 — A heated battle over the closing of a day-laborer hiring site in Mamaroneck moved into the courtroom on Thursday when a Latino civil rights organization sued the village, saying it violated the rights of the laborers by refusing to let them congregate. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court here on behalf of six unnamed laborers, accuses the mayor and the police chief of Mamaroneck of using various tactics, from police checkpoints to aggressive ticketing, in a "deliberate and coordinated" campaign to drive immigrant workers off the streets. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed the suit, said it hoped to win an injunction against the village and the police. ...Before the site was closed in February, 200 men typically gathered there each day and used it as a public toilet and a place to sleep or loiter... ...The defense fund, in seeking an injunction, argued that the village was violating the constitutional rights of the workers to assemble and to exercise free speech, rights that it said are protected by law even though the six plaintiffs and many other laborers in Mamaroneck are not citizens.