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Skriven 2007-02-02 22:47:22 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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TIM RICHARDSON -> JOHN MASSEY wrote:
 TR> On 02-01-07, JOHN MASSEY said to MIMI GALLANDT:


 MG>> Unfortunately it seems that no matter who is "in power" our government,
 MG>> while being better than any other government, is far far from perfect.
 MG>> Did you hear about that case with WalMart a while back? Thousands of
 MG>> illegal employees. Who went to jail? No one, they got fined. If the HR
 MG>> department heads and the CEO had done some hard time you could probably
 MG>> safely wager that WalMart would never do that again.


 JM>> Oh I agree.  I can think of few things that that would be more
 JM>> entertaining that to see a bunch of hot shot top notch high paid U.S.
 JM>> attorneys going after some district or regional level managers.
 JM>> If the attorneys for the government can establish a pattern of
 JM>> deliberately hiring illegals by the managers, send the managers to jail.


 TR> Look....people who are smart enough to come up with the idea of starting a
 TR> large company or retail outlet, are `definitely' smart enough to check
into
 TR> the legal or illegal citizenship of the people they hire to work for them.


 TR> It doesn't take a genius to check out the Social Security number a new
 TR> employee who speaks with a heavy hispanic accent wrote down on their
 TR> application.


 TR> It doesn't take a college grad to look at a drivers license and know if
 TR> its a
 TR> fake or not. Although in this day and age, I have to wonder at the
 TR> individuals
 TR> they are turning out of the public school system here (remind me to tell
 TR> you a
 TR> story about my checking account and one of my credit cards. I just don't
 TR> have
 TR> the time right now as I have to go to the VA hospital this morning and I'm
 TR> getting ready to shave).


 TR> It isn't possible that a large company can hire over 70 or more percent
 TR> hispanics for their work force, and *not* know that a large number of
 TR> them are
 TR> here illegally. Impossible.

I remembered something about Wal-Mart from a while back.
I found this:

Nov 18 2005, 03:37 PM
100 Arrested at Wal-Mart Construction Site
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM,

Associated Press Writer

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Federal immigration agents detained more than 100 workers at a
construction site for a new Wal-Mart distribution center, authorities said.

The workers, who Wal-Mart said were employed by a subcontractor and not by the
retailing giant, were detained Thursday on suspected immigration violations,
said Department of Homeland Security spokesman Marc Raimondi. They were being
taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers for processing,
he said.

More than 50 federal immigration agents, joined by the U.S. Labor Department,
Social Security Administration and state police, raided the construction site
near Pottsville, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

Wal-Mart spokesman Marty Heires said the company would cooperate fully with
federal authorities.

"We have written contracts with these subcontractors requiring that they follow
all applicable local, state and federal employment laws," he said in a
statement.

At least 120 illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, were detained,
Schuylkill County Sheriff Frank McAndrew said. He said he began investigating
the site and contacted federal officials after getting complaints from local
tradespeople.

"You've got a situation here where illegal immigrants are coming into
Schuylkill County and taking (local union workers') jobs for eight bucks an
hour. They are working for poverty wages, and creating unemployment because our
skilled tradesmen are out of work," McAndrew said.

In 2003, a raid of 60 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states led to the arrests of 245
illegal workers. An affidavit claimed a pair of senior Wal-Mart executives knew
cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants. The retailer agreed to pay
$11 million in March to settle the case but denied senior executives knew of
the hirings.


Smells bad to me, besides I don't like Wal-Mart  because of their pattern of
encouraging local governments to use Emanate Domain to take private land for
general development, so if it gives Wal-Mart a black eye so much the better.

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