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Wal-Mart to Review All 1.1M U.S. Workers
AP/ABC News ^
| 10/24/03
| AP Staff
Posted on 10/24/2003 3:05:36 PM PDT by Pro-Bush
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To: Pro-Bush
"Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that they gathered recordings from wiretaps that indicate Wal-Mart executives knew the company's subcontractors used illegal workers." Yeah, and half the homes in Beverly Hills have illegal workers as well. We'll see if they raid any of those.
While I think they need to solve this problem, the government seems to be going after Wal-Mart. It's interesting they don't wish to give the name of the company out that directly employed the illegal workers. Just Wal-Mart which hired the companies that hired the illegal workers.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:35:05 PM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: Pro-Bush
Why are they going after Wal-Mart? I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, but it's apparent that they can get a lot more in fines by going after Wal-Mart then what they can get if they went down to the local Home Depot and arrested all the "day workers." No money in that, but they'd get a higher yield in the number of illegals they can snag.
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
I smell a big fat racist rat here. The illegals caught at Wal-Mart by the INS were all Whites of eastern European orgin.
They are not a big enough voting block yet... :\
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:36:19 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
Or maybe they'll end up in the incredibaly cheap canned "beef" dog food they have at Wal-Mart.
C'mon..no "meat" is $0.39 for 2lbs.Not even lips and a**holes!
(In Chuck Heston voice) "Wal-Mart dogfood...IT'S PEOPLE!!)
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:38:56 PM PDT
by
Ribeye
(.50 Action Express....Don't leave home without it.)
To: Coeur de Lion
Walmart is anti-union, so it is logical that pressure from big labor unions like the AFL/CIO are behind this. They have real deep pockets for lobbying and making things happen.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:39:00 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
To: Pro-Bush
"They are not a big enough voting block yet... :\"
Incorrect. They are a voting bloc that is likely to vote Republican. That is why they are being expelled.
Qwinn
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:41:09 PM PDT
by
Qwinn
To: HarleyD
Walmart the first to get busted...no accident for sure.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:42:23 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
To: Always Right
My opinion is if a farmer needs illegal labor to make ends meet, they deserve to go bankrupt.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:48:07 PM PDT
by
JNB
To: Pro-Bush
"Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that they gathered recordings from wiretaps that indicate Wal-Mart executives knew the company's subcontractors used illegal workers."
I thought this was a bit interesting. But they only busted a few hundred illegals. There has to be more here.
To: Pro-Bush
I laughed today when the spokesman for the PR firm that W-M hired to handle this debacle said, "Wal-Mart has a history of being an 'all American Company'." Say what? They no longer "Buy American" but buy almost anywhere else, but mostly from the Chicoms. Where does the "All American" label come from? It's from the imagination of the W-M management and major stockholeders, the Walton family. Poor old Sam Walton would not recognize his company now.
To: So Cal Rocket
Well, we kids did the job. I picked strawberries for months in the summer and liked the pay too! It was 5 cents a basket and all the berries we could eat. Kids of my generation were taught the value of labor very early and never failed to do the picking jobs when they were offered. Kids now would refuse to be that long away from the mall, even if you could pry their cell phones away from their ears.
To: Pro-Bush
With all the illegals pouring into California and Arizona why would the INS spend its time bugging the offices of Wal-Mart and conducting a 21-state sweep which net mostly illegal immigrants from Europe? This is nothing more than a political move pure and simple.
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posted on
10/24/2003 3:59:43 PM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: Pro-Bush
I am going to print up a Tee shirt with I N S on the front
and the great wall-mart of china on the back.
I will then wear it to the local walmart.
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posted on
10/24/2003 4:13:25 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(CCCP = clinton, chiraq, chretien, and putin = stalin wannabes)
To: Pro-Bush
Wal-Mart buys everything possible made by the Chinese and then hires illegal aliens to work in the stores. Way to go Wal-Mart, always thinkin about what's best for your fellow Americans! We salute you for your wonderful patriotism.
To: Pro-Bush
Everybody has an axe to grind against the successful. A regular bonfire of the vanities. Microsoft, Martha Stewart, Wal-Mart. The unions, for one, definitely hate Wal-Mart.
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posted on
10/24/2003 4:18:40 PM PDT
by
TheDon
To: Pro-Bush
This is nothing but a federal PR campaign unless Wal-Mart bigwigs go to prison. A fine for Wal-Mart could come out of petty cash and never be missed.
To: Pro-Bush
Good --- maybe next time I'm in a Walmart, I'll hear some of the employees speaking English. Especially the announcements ---- recently they've all gone to Spanish --- but this might convince them to turn it around a little.
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posted on
10/24/2003 4:20:04 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: HarleyD
which net mostly illegal immigrants from Europe? According to this article they weren't mostly from Europe. They were from a variety of places ---- only 35 from Europe.
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posted on
10/24/2003 4:30:03 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: FITZ
bump! ....You're right, I remember when the background music was in english, it will be nice to hear it again.
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posted on
10/24/2003 4:32:40 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
To: Pro-Bush
I might just drop into a Walmart to see if they're all going out of their way to look, act, and speak American for a change. I might feel like I'm back in my own country.
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posted on
10/24/2003 4:37:45 PM PDT
by
FITZ
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