Kevin Beck presented us with some information about daily work in New York. What emerged was that the community around the designated work site was perceived as an area experiencing excess crime, even though there had been no actual documentation of such an event. This felony charge contributed to the closure of the only legal means available to unauthorized immigrants to obtain employment within the city (Beck). A similar situation occurred in Manassas, Virginia, where the exclusion ordinance passed by the city council was based solely on anecdotal evidence that there had been an increase in crime caused by “illegal immigrants.” When the facts were examined, there was actually a steady annual decline in crime in the city (Eric Byler,