Posted on 07/16/2008 10:59:35 AM PDT by GQuagmire
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Federal immigration agents have arrested 31 contracted maintenance workers during a sweep of six Rhode Island courthouses.
The arrests were made Tuesday evening and targeted workers hired by two state contractors, Falcon Maintenance and Tri-State Enterprises. Investigators say the workers were in the country illegally
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Wow... Courthouses? LOL
What about those “fines for employers who hire illegals” that all the fools keep trying to push, instead of looking at the REAL problem.
The REAL problem being that the GOVERNMENT let them IN in the first place, and the second problem being that they are here ILLEGALLY.
Employers have no responsibility to determine citizenship of people. They merely have the responsibly to ask for the proper paperwork and usually get it. It is NOT the responsibility of the employer to determine if the paperwork is forged or not.
Therefore, let’s point at the right people who are WRONG in this and that is Congress, and the agencies that are supposed to protect our borders.
Bust the hiring companies also! WTF?
Were they picking lettuce? I have been told that is all they do.
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I guess they were working in the courthouses doing those jobs Americans won’t do. lol
This can’t be true. After all, we know Bush stopped these kinds of sweeps a long time ago.
“Bust the hiring companies also! WTF?”
A few weeks ago Pres. Bush issued an executive order telling our federal bureaucracies to stop hiring illegal aliens. No joke. We need an EO to tell them to NOT break the law?
“This can’t be true. After all, we know Bush stopped these kinds of sweeps a long time ago.”
No one ever said “Bush stopped these kinds of sweeps”. No, it was the republican congress led by the Georgia delegation (Chambliss, Newt,etc) that put a stop to the employer sweeps to protect their precious vidallia onion growers in 1998.
Bush just didn’t bother to start them up again and ignored it until recently when he was forced to.
Sweeps were higher under Clinton than Bush.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=onions
Courthouses?
I wonder how many were lawyers . . .
It's called hyperbole and sarcasm.
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