A manufactured crisis plays out daily in the parking lots of LA’s Home Depot store s.  Day laborer centers , seven city-contracted hubs often nestled on private commercial property, have become battlegrounds. And, no surprise, the NGOs now want more of your hard-earned dollars . Nonprofit organizations like CARECEN demand millions in local taxpayer dollars not to help workers find jobs, but to shield illegal aliens from lawful federal enforcement by ICE. Ringo Chiu LA City Hall bears primary responsibility for escalating this needless conflict. Mayor Karen Bass’ administration included these day laborer centers in her preliminary budget at flat funding levels, then meekly responded to advocates’ outrage by promising to “work with the City Council on any potential solutions to support immigrant communities further.” This is classic Bass equivocation: maintaining the status quo while signaling openness to the very demands that undermine federal enforcement.…