Can y'all believe this *#@%# ping?
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Posted on 10/24/2003 7:54:36 PM PDT by libertyisnotfree
US Rep. Pelosi says Wal-Mart arrests "terrorizing"
Reuters, 10.24.03, 6:15 PM ET
MEXICO CITY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Friday police raids on dozens of U.S. Wal-Mart stores in the search for illegal immigrants this week amounted to "terrorizing" workers.
"It instills a great deal of fear in people who are only trying to earn a living and put food on the table for their family," Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters on a Congressional visit to Mexico.
Hundreds of workers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (nyse: WMT - news - people) locations across the United States were arrested on immigration charges on Thursday in an investigation into contractor cleaning crews.
"We think there might be a better way to go about this because the fact is that it is against the law for the employer to hire these people so there should be more focus on the employer and less in these terrorizing raids," Pelosi said.
She was speaking after meeting Mexican President Vicente Fox for talks on immigration and border security.
Pelosi said the Wal-Mart raids showed the need to legalize undocumented workers in parts of the economy other than just the agricultural sector.
Several bills to grant legal status to illegal immigrants working in U.S. agriculture are before Congress, including the Berman-Cannon bill which would let an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants earn legal residency.
Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service
hehe ! Thanks ... Freeper 'SerpentDove' did the work on that animation ...
Can y'all believe this *#@%# ping?
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Anyway, I read this part: ""We think there might be a better way to go about this because the fact is that it is against the law for the employer to hire these people so there should be more focus on the employer and less in these terrorizing raids," Pelosi said," and I could hear him, in his best condensending voice, "Ohh reallly!"
Well, I got Adobe PhotoDeluxe a few months ago. Here goes nuttin', honey ! ...
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